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On February 24, 2022 Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people's republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev's forces.

Russian Forces Obliterate Ukrainian Assault Units in Rabotino

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Russian servicemen of the Western Military District uses an artillery compass - Sputnik International, 1920, 25.08.2023
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SIMFEROPOL (Sputnik) – Assault units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces that managed to reach the first line of defense in the village of Rabotino in the Zaporozhye region were completely annihilated by Russian forces, Yevgeny Balitsky, the acting governor of the Zaporozhye region, wrote on his Telegram channel on Friday.
"Yesterday, at the cost of colossal losses, they managed to break through the first defensive line of technical barriers, but they are advancing primarily without artillery support. As a result, the enemy assault groups that reached the first line yesterday were completely destroyed overnight," Balitsky wrote.
According to him, for several days Rabotino has remained one of the most intense sectors on the front lines in the Zaporozhye direction, where the commanders of the Ukrainian Armed Forces spare no effort to risk the lives of their soldiers.
"The situation is undoubtedly tense. The enemy is trying to wear down our defenses with constant acts of self-destruction, but our guys are putting up such fierce resistance that the enemy's command can't keep up with the replacement of its soldiers and Western equipment, which burns as well as any other," Balitsky stressed.
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