Russia said Friday its forces had seized Toretsk in east Ukraine after months of heavy fighting, the biggest town Moscow claims to have taken in recent months.
The industrial hub in the eastern Donetsk region had been in the Kremlin’s sights for months, as its capture would enable Russia to obstruct vital Ukrainian supply routes.
“As a result of active offensive operations... the city of Dzerzhinsk in the Donetsk People’s Republic was liberated,” the defense ministry said, using a Russian name for the town and the region.
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Dzerzhinsk (Ukrainian name - Toretsk) in the DPR was the last key outpost on the way to Ukraine’s large stronghold in Konstantinovka, Igor Kimakovsky, an advisor to the DPR head has told TASS.
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The liberation of Dzerzhinsk poses a threat to the Ukrainian group in the area of Dimitrovka (Ukrainian name Mirnograd), east of Krasnoarmeysk (Ukrainian name Pokrovsk).
On February 7, the Russian Defense Ministry reported the liberation of Dzerzhinsk in the DPR.