MOSCOW, August 8. /TASS/. Russian troops liberated two communities in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the Dnepropetrovsk Region over the week of August 2-8 in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Friday.
"Battlegroup South units kept advancing deep into the enemy’s defenses and liberated the settlement of Aleksandro-Kalinovo in the Donetsk People’s Republic <…> Battlegroup East units liberated the settlement of Yanvarskoye in the Dnepropetrovsk Region through active and decisive operations," the ministry said in a statement.
Russian troops delivered seven strikes by precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles on Ukrainian military-industrial sites over the week, the ministry reported.
"On August 2-8, the Russian Armed Forces delivered seven combined strikes by precision weapons and attack unmanned aerial vehicles, hitting sites of the gas transportation system that support the operation of Ukrainian military-industrial enterprises, the transport infrastructure used by the Ukrainian army, a territorial recruitment center, control posts and warehouses of long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, the infrastructure of a military airfield, a workshop for the production of uncrewed boats, and also temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations, nationalists and foreign mercenaries," the ministry said.
