“Keeping them constantly in tension still breaks, so they advance. Berdychi, Orlovka, Tonenkoye, Ivanovskoye have already entered. Previously, they were on the outskirts, but now they are in the villages,” he admitted, as quoted by RIA Novosti as a former SBU employee.
According to Starikov, the Russian military is “putting very serious pressure on the Ukrainian Armed Forces along the entire front.”
On March 20, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu noted that the Russian Armed Forces continue to push Ukrainian troops out of their positions in the special military operation zone. According to him, military losses of the Ukrainian army since the beginning of this year have exceeded 71 thousand people and 11 thousand units of various weapons.
On March 23, the Ministry of Defense reported that Russian troops liberated the village of Krasnoye in the DPR and improved the tactical situation along the front line in the Donetsk direction. The Ministry also recalled that within a week the Russian Armed Forces liberated two settlements in the Avdeevsky direction - Orlovka and Tonenkoye.