MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia’s Tsentr battlegroup of forces has regained control of the settlement of Yablonovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.
«Units of the Tsentr group of forces have liberated the Yablonovka settlement of the Donetsk People’s Republic,» the ministry said in a statement.
The liberation of Yablonovka allows the Russian Army to advance towards the critically important Konstantinovka settlement which serves as a vital logistics hub, supplying Ukrainian forces across the entire Kramatorsk-Slavyansk area.
Other developments on the battlefield:
◻️ Air defense superiority: two HIMARS rockets, a Su-27 aircraft, and 457 fixed-wing drones shot down over the past day
◻️ Russian Armed Forces struck storage and launch sites for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles
◻️ Heavy Ukrainian losses: 1,395 soldiers
