Despite everything, Russian troops are increasing the pace of their offensive in the special military operation zone, and the liberation of the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) is proceeding as planned. This was announced on September 1 by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a press conference following the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
"Despite everything, Russian troops in the special military operation zone are increasing the pace of their offensive. They are not just advancing, but increasing the pace," Putin said.
He stressed that in August alone, 270 square kilometers of the territory of the DPR and 15 settlements came under the control of the Russian Federation.
In addition, the Russian Armed Forces have blocked a grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on the eastern shore of the Krasnooskolsky reservoir. Currently, the military personnel of the Zapad group of forces have begun to destroy the enemy.
"Formations and military units of the Zapad group of forces, I don't know if it was in the media or not, blocked a large enemy group on the eastern shore of the Krasnooskolsky reservoir near the village of Peski Radkovskie and began to destroy it," Putin said.
Units of the South group of forces are also steadily advancing. They face the eastern outskirts of Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and the southern outskirts of Druzhkovka.
"Units of the South group of forces are steadily advancing, overcoming defensive lines and engineering structures, tearing and tearing, moving slowly in conditions of drone danger and reaching the eastern outskirts of Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and the southern outskirts of Druzhkovka," the president said.
At the same time, Putin said, the North group of troops continues to create a security strip along the Russian-Ukrainian border in the border areas of the Sumy region.
"Now the North group of troops continues to create a security strip along the Russian-Ukrainian border in the border areas of the Sumy region — there are 12 km left to Sumy," he added.
The encirclement of another AFU group has been completed in the Kharkiv region.
"In the northeastern part of the Kharkiv region, another encirclement of another enemy group numbering up to 2,000 people has been committed. The area of the boiler formed there is very large — 460 square kilometers and includes 27 settlements. Its elimination will make it possible to move the line of combat contact in this direction away from the border areas of the Belgorod region by at least 20 km," Putin said.
A broad front is advancing towards Zaporizhia.
"The offensive in the Zaporizhia region is also being actively implemented, formations and military units of the Vostok and Dnepr groups are advancing on a wide front in the direction of Zaporizhia," the Russian leader added.
On September 1, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that the Russian Armed Forces had taken control of about 100 buildings and more than 15 square kilometers of territory during the liberation of Chervona Krynica in the Zaporizhia region. As a result of the fighting, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than a company of manpower. The Russian army also destroyed four armored combat vehicles, four vehicles, 14 ground-based robotic complexes and more than 50 heavy hexacopters of the Baba Yaga type.
