As the world’s attention is now focused in the upcoming peace negotiations between the US and Russia, with the subsequent ceasefire and eventual end of the war in Ukraine, the combat operations continue all along the 600-mile frontline.
Russian Federation forces continue to advance over the crumbling Ukrainian defenses, and as a result of no less than 5 months of siege, troops from the ‘Center’ group conquered the city of Dzerzhinsk (Ukrainian name Toretsk), an important mine town in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
Watch: Russian troops manually blow up a high-rise building’s roop with anti-tank mines.
Heroic footage of the storming of Toretsk: Gorlovka fighters blow up roofs together with Ukrainian Armed Forces militants with anti-tank mines! Our soldiers again broke through to the roof of a high-rise building where Ukrainian Armed Forces militants were holed up and… pic.twitter.com/snyEOoQTZN
— The world is patriots. (@bertalanzoli) November 23, 2024
EurAsia Daily reported:
“The corresponding statement was published on Friday, February 7 by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
‘As a result of active offensive actions … the city of Dzerzhinsk of the Donetsk People’s Republic has been liberated’, the report says.
The Ministry of Defense clarified that units of the 1st, 9th and 132nd Guards separate motorized rifle brigades of the 51st Army and the volunteer formation ‘Veterans’ of the Center group of forces participated in the liberation of the city.”
Watch: Russian assault troops making the sign of the cross before advancing to their next target in Toretsk.
A Ukrainian drone captured striking footage of Russian assault troops making the sign of the cross before advancing to their next target in Toretsk.
The Russian army continues its offensive, liberating one building after another in the ongoing battle for the city. pic.twitter.com/wlN8mZDKio
— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) October 12, 2024
Unlike some recent Russian conquests in which the Ukrainians put up limited defense, the strategic coal-mining city of Toretsk resisted for more than 5 months, and the settlement is badly destroyed.
Until now, there has been no comment from Ukraine regarding the fate of Toretsk.
Watch: intense footage of defending Ukrainian troops engaged in urban battles in Toretsk.
RF troops have reached the administrative quarter in the center of Toretsk: the school and police buildings of the city, as well as the indoor market. “There is a battle going on. We are pushing.
Our units storming multi-story buildings in the city center, in the area of the… pic.twitter.com/Fj8H4NFowM—
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Reuters reported:
“Russia calls the city, which had a pre-war population of around 30,000 people, by its Soviet-era name of Dzerzhinsk and says Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, where it is located, is now part of Russia, a claim Kyiv rejects as absurd.
Ukrainian military analysts say that capturing Toretsk, which is on high ground, could allow Russian forces to further complicate logistics for Ukrainian forces in much of the east and to advance to the northwest towards the regional logistics hub of Kostiantynivka, which links to several key cities.”
Watch: Russian FPV drones destroying armored vehicles, tanks and targeting troops in Toretsk.
Footage from the direction of the city of Toretsk in the Donetsk region. pic.twitter.com/qWL8UcprW1
— Magelan Z_O_V_ (@Operativnik22) February 7, 2025
The majority of Toretsk’s civilian population fled or was evacuated, and a good percentage of the city’s buildings are pulverized or badly damaged.
Watch: aerial view of the destroyed city.
Toretsk….
About 30,000 civilians lived there before 2022, about 90% of those had Russian as their first language.
Then the Russkiy Mir “liberation” arrived. pic.twitter.com/gVhsPxEKiA— Kvist (@kvistp) February 7, 2025
Watch: animated infographic of the battle for Toretsk.
Battle of Toretsk Donetsk oblast pic.twitter.com/CXHw3MHVkC
— The world is patriots. (@bertalanzoli) January 29, 2025
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