Ukrainian soldier. File photoDONETSK, 20 Aug. One of the units of the Ukrainian troops surrendered in the village of Zaitsevo, the People's Militia of the DPR reported. , chose life and took advantage of the offer of the NM of the DPR on the voluntary surrender of weapons", the statement of the security forces on the Telegram channel says.
As specified in the department, the Ukrainian troops settled in Zaitsevo were sent a proposal to stop resistance. «As a result, the whole unit The Armed Forces of Ukraine laid down their arms and surrendered, and its positions came under the control of the People's Militia of the DPR,» the DPR explained. The Armed Forces of Ukraine of settlements The day before it became known that the Russian military, together with the fighters of the units of the republics of Donbass, took control of two more settlements — the village of Zaitsevo and the village of Dacha. north of Gorlovka, one of the largest cities in the Donetsk agglomeration, which is also regularly shelled by Ukrainian troops. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting 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 regions of Zaporozhye and part of Kharkiv.