The settlement of Novopokrovskoye has been liberated from the Ukrainian military, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said
Another settlement in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) has been captured from Ukrainian troops, Russian Defense Ministry has announced.
The settlement of Novopokrovskoye has been “liberated,” the ministry said in a statement on Monday.
The village was taken thanks to “the active initiatives” of the Center group of forces, the statement read, allowing the Russian military to “improve its tactical position” in the area.
Novopokrovskoye is located in the Yasinovatsky District of the DPR, northwest of regional capital, Donetsk.
Elsewhere in the DRP, the Russian military “delivered a defeat” to the Ukrainian forces around the villages of Evgenovka, Novgorodskoye, Timofeevka, Sokol, Toretsk, and Progress, the ministry said. Five Ukrainian counterattacks have also been repelled across the region, it added.
During the fighting in the DPR over the past 24 hours, Ukraine lost up to 405 troops and several pieces of hardware, including a US-supplied Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, MaxxPro armored vehicle, and an M777 howitzer.
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