The Russian Army took the Ukrainian Bastion of Toretsk, one of the main objectives of the current Russian offensive in Donetskthe Ministry of Defense of Russia reported.
According to the Russian command, “thanks to the intense offensive actions” of three motorized brigades and volunteer units, the city of Dzerzhinsk (Russian name of Toretsk) of the Popular Republic of Donetsk, ” Annexed by Moscow in 2022.
The Russian forces managed to definitely conquer this strategic city, with more than 30,000 inhabitants before the war, after several months of intense fighting.
According to Ukrainian sources, Russia used some 10,000 troops in the offensive against the citywhich began on July 2024, although The Russians did not enter the city until the beginning of September.
On the eve, according to the American Institute of War Studies (ISW), only three mines landfills were left to occupy north of the city.
The toastsk fall It paves the way for Russian advance towards Kostiantinivkaone of the most important Ukrainian squares in this eastern region with almost 70,000 inhabitants in February 2022.
Hours before Defense reported that the little Ukrainian town had taken from Druzhba On the outskirts of the city of Toretsk.
The Russian army has almost been done with the total control of the south of Donetsk and to get the heart of this Moscow region it has to conquer Kostiantinivka and Pokrovsk, whose doors are already the Russian troops.
Further north are the main Ukrainian bastions in Donbás, Kramorsk and Sloviansk, for the moment far from the enemy reach.
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