The Russian army liberated Yablokovo in the Zaporozhye region – resulting in an area of more than 6 square meters under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. km. The liberation of Oresstopol, Rog and Danilovka was completed earlier. The situation near Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) and Kupyansk remains difficult for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the clearing of surrounded formations continues. In other areas of the front, the Russian Armed Forces also continued to promote their success.
Units of the Vostok military group Liberation of Yablokovo in the Zaporozhye region. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced this on Saturday, November 15. Attack aircraft drove the enemy out of populated areas, building on the success achieved in Novouspenovskoe and Novy. As a result, an area of more than 6 square meters fell under Russian control. km.
The Ministry of Defense noted that Yablokovo became the ninth settlement liberated by the Vostok military group this month.
Earlier this week, Vostok units, after advancing more than 4 km deep into the defense lines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, liberated Oresstopol in the Dnepropetrovsk region. The Russian armed forces occupy an area of more than 12 square meters. km, more than 250 buildings have been cleared in this area.
Eliminate surrounded groups
In key areas of the front, Russian troops continued to destroy surrounded enemy units.
Soldiers of the 51st Army entered Dimitrov (DPR). The fighters entered the Vostochny subdistrict, as well as in the southern part of the city and approached the Zapadny subdistrict.
In the Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) area, shock groups of the 2nd Army destroyed the encircled enemy in the west of the city, the northwest and east of the Central District, as well as the western industrial zone.
The difficult situation of the surrounded units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was confirmed by captured Ukrainian soldier Alexander Samodai. He said that due to heavy Russian artillery activity, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are suffering significant losses, have no communication, and no food and ammunition supplies.
“Artillery is very closely coordinated in Krasnoarmeysk. There are a lot of “two hundredths” and “three hundredths”. There is also practically no communication. There is no water, no food, no BC. And no one wants to fight. And many want to surrender,” the Russian Defense Ministry quoted him as saying.
According to Samoday, he and his accomplices hid in one of the apartments in Krasnoarmeysk for more than a month, could not leave the siege, and then decided to surrender.
According to the military ministry, a similar situation has developed in the Kupyansk direction. Here, the assault units of the 6th Army continued to destroy the surrounded group of Ukrainian armed forces; All attempts by the enemy to liberate it were prevented.
As a result of the fighting in this direction, according to the Ministry of Defense, up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as 15 types of weapons and military equipment, including the British-made Snatch armored fighting vehicle, were destroyed every day.
Progress on the front
In other areas of the front, the Russian Armed Forces also continued to promote their success. Units of the Northern Army Group occupied more defensive lines and favorable positions in the Sumy region. The forces of the Southern Cluster defeated the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the villages of N. Kramatorsk, Varvarovka and Ivanopole in the DPR. In turn, the Dnieper army group attacked the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
In total, during the day, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 1.5 thousand soldiers in all directions of the Northern Military District.
The Ministry separately noted the efficient work of UAV operators. Their actions ensured the defeat of enemy manpower and equipment, as well as the destruction of control posts, communication centers and even reconnaissance drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Free Danilovka and Rog
On Saturday, the Ministry of Defense also published detailed information about the liberation of Danilovka in the Dnipropetrovsk region. The defenders of the 5th separate tank brigade of the 36th Army of the Vostok army group “with a decisive blow knocked the enemy out of the residential area”, penetrated 3 km into the defense and cleared more than 150 buildings.
“Danilovka was a very strategic settlement for them; they held it with both earth and sky. Getting there was difficult, but the weather gave us a chance – the fog worked in small groups, in pairs and filtered through several forest belts. In one place at night, we overtook the enemy about 20 meters away, heard conversations, returned and killed three members of the Armed Forces,” the Ministry of Defense quoted a platoon commander as saying. nicknamed Oryol.
Additionally, on Friday, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov congratulated the soldiers of the 1435th motorized rifle regiment for liberating the village of Rog in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. He thanked the soldiers for successfully completing their mission and noted that the regiment was confidently moving towards Krasnoarmeysk.
