Russian Forces Liberate Novoaleksandrovka in Dnepropetrovsk Region

«The settlements of Novonikolayevka, Krasnogorskoye, Privolnoye, Zapoozhye region, Egorovka, Vishnevoye and Novoaleksandrovka, Dnepropetrovsk region, have been taken control of,» the ministry said in a statement.

During the liberation of Novoaleksandrovka, Russia’s Vostok Battlegroup took control of more than 12 square kilometers (4 square miles) of land and mopped up about 100 buildings, the ministry said.

The Russian Defense Ministry published a video showing Russian troops unfurling a flag in the liberated Novoaleksandrovka settlement. Ukrainian forces lost up to 1,950 troops during battles with Russia’s Vostok group over the past week, it said.

Meanwhile, units of Russia’s Tsentr Battlegroup repelled four attempts to unblock encircled Ukrainian armed forces units and 23 attempts to break through the encirclement over the past week, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.

Over the past 24 hours, the Russian armed forces thwarted an attempt to unblock the encircled group of Ukrainian troops from the village of Grishino in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), and seven attempts by Ukrainian armed forces to break through the encirclement in the northern and northwestern directions, the ministry said.

Russia’s Zapad group of forces has thwarted six enemy attempts to unblock the surrounded units of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Kharkov region in the past week, the statement read.