MOSCOW, February 1. /TASS/. Since the beginning of the year, Russian troops have liberated 24 settlements in the special military operation zone, according to TASS calculations based on reports from the Defense Ministry.
Most of the settlements, 10 in total, were liberated in the Zaporozhye Region by soldiers of the battlegroups East and Dnepr. These include Ternovatoye, Novoyakovlevka, Rechnoye, Priluki, Pavlovka, Zhovtnevoye, Belogorye, Novoboykovskoye, Zelenoye, and Petrovka.
Units of the battlegroups West and Center operating in the Donetsk People's Republic liberated six settlements: Berezovka, Zakotnoye, Privolye, Novopavlovka, Bondarnoye, and Toretskoye.
In the Kharkov Region, four settlements were liberated by soldiers from the battlegroups West and North, including Kupyansk-Uzlovoy, Staritsa, Siminovka, and Podoly.
In the Sumy Region, three settlements, Grabovskoye, Komarovka, and Belaya Bereza, came under Russian control as a result of actions by the Battlegroup North. In addition, soldiers from the Battlegroup East liberated one settlement, Bratskoye, in the Dnepropetrovsk Region.
