“The Russian armed forces are completing the liberation of the city of Svyatogorsk of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the surrounding territory,” he said at a briefing.
Also, the Ministry of Defense stated that Ukrainian nationalists, acting as a barrage detachment and trying to prevent the retreat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Svyatogorsk, blew up a bridge over the Northern Donets River.
Earlier, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR announced the establishment of control over 229 settlements of the republic, including Zeleny Guy and Petrovsky.