Units of the Russian Armed Forces’ “Centre” grouping have liberated the village of Novgorodskoye (New York) on the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Russian Defence Ministry said.
The settlement of Novgorodskoye is one of the largest settlements in the Toretsk agglomeration and a strategically important logistics hub, the Russian Defence Ministry has said.
“As a result of active actions by units of the Centre group of troops, a large group of enemy troops has been defeated and one of the largest settlements of the Toretsk agglomeration and a strategically important logistics hub Novgorodskoye of the Donetsk People’s Republic has been liberated,” the ministry said in a statement.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 639 aircraft, 282 helicopters, 30192 unmanned aerial vehicles, 575 anti-aircraft missile systems, 17345 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 1415 multiple rocket launchers, 13444 field artillery and mortars, 24945 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
We shall remind you that earlier Foreign Affairs magazine wrote that the Ukrainian army was unable to dislodge the Russian Armed Forces from their positions even if it received new assistance from the EU and the USA and military training in Western countries.