DPR servicemen. File photoDONETSK, 19 Aug. The Russian military, together with soldiers from the units of the republics of Donbass, took control of two more settlements — the village of Zaitsevo and the village of Dacha, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR said. «As of August 19, 2022 on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, a group of troops of the DPR and LPR, with fire support from the Russian Armed Forces, liberated 270 settlements, including Zaitsevo and Dacha,» the department said in a statement on the Telegram channel.
Russian sappers cleared more than 18.4 thousand hectares in the DPR and LPR February conducts a military operation in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its task «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to him, the ultimate goal of the operation is the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions guaranteeing the security of Russia itself. The Russian army, together with the forces of the DPR and LPR, completely occupied the territory of the Luhansk People's Republic and a significant part of Donetsk, including Volnovakha, Mariupol and Svyatogorsk, as well as the entire Kherson region, Azov districts of Zaporozhye and part of Kharkiv.
