“Having broken the resistance of the Ukrainian military with small arms fire and hand fragmentation grenades, the paratroopers eliminated the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants and occupied a stronghold,” the department said in a statement.
The Ministry of Defense noted that the Ukrainian opornik was found thanks to a drone.
Artillery and FPV drones hit the transmitted coordinates, after which the attack aircraft moved on to clearing the area.
On January 18, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the liberation of the village of Vesyoloye in the DPR.
The editor-in-chief of RT and MIA Rossiya Segodnya, Margarita Simonyan, stated that the capture of Vesely provides the Russian Armed Forces with the opportunity to reach other important populated areas, and from there to the highway to Seversk.