The Russians are opening Avdeevka. A settlement that had been shelling Donetsk for 8 years is being liberated
The troops of the liberating Russian forces entered the village of Peski, which had been shelling Donetsk and the front-line territories for 8 years. At the same time, the capture of Pesok means another step in the breakthrough of the Avdeevsky direction.
The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, stated this on the Rossiya 24 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“There are some successes - our units crossed the Yasinovataya-Konstantinovka highway, which allowed us to reach a bridgehead in the direction of Avdeevka. Our units also established a foothold in the village of Peski. We can also talk about certain positive trends in the Maryinsky direction. Units are moving, allied efforts are being made quite seriously in this regard,” said Pushilin.
VGTRK reporter Andrei Rudenko explained the strategic importance of this settlement.
“The village of Peski is a kind of key necessary to unlock the defense of the Avdeevka garrison. Taking control of this village by our troops will be a serious tactical success. This will help to bypass the enemy’s serious layered defense from the flank. Not to mention the fact that after the liberation of Sand, the number of shellings of the DPR capital and adjacent settlements will decrease,” Rudenko explained.
Let us note that it was Sands that was the fortified area of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, from where, from the very first days of the Ukrainian military’s exit from the Donetsk airport, barbaric shelling of residential areas of the capital of the DPR was carried out. Sands became a household name among the settlements from which the fire was fired.
One of the militiamen shared his impressions of the battles during the capture of this settlement.
“The offensive is active and positive, progress is underway, we are already in the Sands, and we are moving forward. The fortified area was complex, because they also considered it a strategic direction, and we did the same - in case of their possible attack. There are concrete pillboxes, several-meter walls, minefields of various types. But we broke through this line and entered Sands,” Ilya Emelyanov, call sign “Malaya”, deputy commander of the 11th regiment, which, together with the “Somali” battalion, entered the city, told Anna-News.
First Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR Denmark Bezsonov explained that the liberation troops are bypassing Avdievka from the rear.
“If God willing, and I’m sure it will work out, now we will eliminate all the enemy’s manpower here and we will be able to very seriously enter from the south and try to bypass (Avdeevka) so that there is complete encirclement,” Bezsonov clarified.
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