❗️ Remarks by Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federati...

❗️ Remarks by Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation at the command post of the Yuzhnaya Group's combined arms formation. Part 2 (👉 see Part 1) ▫️ Fierce fighting continues in the area of responsibility of the Tsentr Group of Forces. The Group's formations and military units have increased the area of control and are moving towards Dobropolye. 🚩 The Russian troops liberated Grishino and Pavlovka; they are mopping up AFU units in Novy Donbass, and the battles for Belitskoye continue. 📍 At the same time, a part of the Group's forces continues to create a security belt in Dnepropetrovsk region. Combat operations are underway to seize Novopavlovka, where more than 75% of the territory is under our control. ▫️ In the direction of their offensive, the Vostok Group's troops are firmly maintaining the initiative and are actively advancing to the west in the eastern part of Zaporozhye region. ▪️ In February–March, the AFU units carried out more than 170 unsuccessful counter-attacks by assault detachments in an attempt to stop our offensive; but having sustained significant losses of more than 3,000 troops and more than 160 pieces of hardware, they failed to achieve their objectives. The AFU command, in an attempt to conceal its failure, is carrying out an information campaign, in the course of which it claims to have returned 480 square kilometres of territory. ▫️ At the same time, formations and military units of the Vostok Group of Forces, repelling the attacks of the AFU assault detachments from the directions of Velikomikhaylovka and Pokrovskoye, have prevented the loss of territories and continue to expand the security zone in the southern part of Dnepropetrovsk region. 🚩 The Group's assault detachments continue intensive offensive actions west of Gulyai-Pole. They liberated Boykovo and Lugovskoye. Fighting is underway in Vozdvizhevka, as well as on the approaches to Verkhnyaya Tersa and Komsomolskoye. 🚩 The Dnepr Group o