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AFU confirm occupation of Urozhaine in Donetsk Region

AFU confirm occupation of Urozhaine in Donetsk Region

For the second time during the full-scale invasion, Urozhaine in the Volnovakha District in the Donetsk Region has come under russian control.

The spokesman of the Khortytsia Operational-Strategic Group of Troops, Nazar Voloshyn, announced this in a commentary to Suspilne Donbas.

"Due to the fact that the enemy destroyed almost everything in Urozhaine, the defense forces withdrew to other positions. A decision was made to preserve the lives and health of our servicemen who were defending there," said the spokesman of the operational-strategic group.

The decision to withdraw from Urozhaine was made because the positions of the Defense Forces, as well as the settlement itself, were destroyed by constant, combined and prolonged shelling by russian troops.

"The settlement itself was also almost completely destroyed by enemy shelling. The positions of the Ukrainian defenders were destroyed, and keeping personnel there was a threat to the lives of our soldiers," said the spokesman for Khortytsia.

According to Voloshyn, the russian army does not count on losses, destroying Ukrainian cities and towns.

"In order to achieve success and some kind of victory in the destroyed settlements and villages, the enemy suffers considerable losses every day. They count more than one hundred in killed alone, and the result is a destroyed settlement and around it a pile of corpses of Russian soldiers who will no longer return to their native homes," Voloshyn added.

According to Voloshyn, the Ukrainian military controls the situation on the axis.

We will remind, on July 16, the Ukrainian publication Liga.net reported with reference to its own sources in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that the Ukrainian military left the village of Krynky on the left bank of the Kherson Region.

The publication also wrote that the Armed Forces were forced to leave the village of Urozhaine in the Donetsk Region, which was liberated in the summer of 2023.

And on July 18, Slidstvo. Info reported, citing alleged police data, that 788 Ukrainian soldiers were missing in Krynky.

As the Ukrainian News agency reported, earlier today the command of the Marine Corps of the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced that the Ukrainian military continues to carry out combat missions on the left bank of the Kherson Region.