MOSCOW, July 4. /TASS/. Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the Russian General Staff and First Deputy Chief of the General Staff Sergey Rudskoy held a briefing to outline the main stages of the liberation of the city of Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), which, according to him, is the key to Kiev’s last stronghold in Donbass - the Kramatorsk-Slavyansk agglomeration.
TASS has compiled Rudskoy's key statements.
Ukrainian defense system
- Kiev had been building a system of defensive positions in Konstantinovka since 2014 and significantly reinforced it after the fall of Bakhmut (known as Artyomovsk in Russia).
- Ukrainian forces in Konstantinovka established more than 80 obstacle zones and over 50 fortified defensive strongpoints, including facilities such as kindergartens and schools.
