IN BRIEF: Russian army completes encirclement of Ukraine’s strongpoint in Dobropolye

MOSCOW, September 22. /TASS/. Russian troops have finished the encirclement of a major Ukrainian armed forces fortified area in the city of Dobropolye in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and are moving further toward Aleksandrovka, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

- Units of the Battlegroup Center have completed the encirclement of a major Ukrainian strongpoint in the city of Dobropolye in the DPR through decisive operations and are moving further toward Aleksandrovka, the ministry reported.

- Units of the 4th and 15th Ukrainian National Guard Brigades and the 425th Skala Assault Regiment have been surrounded, it stated.

- The elimination of the trapped enemy formations is underway, the ministry reported.

- Control over the settlements of Zolotoy Kolodez and Maryevka allows Russian troops to drive a wedge into the Ukrainian armed forces’ defenses between the fortified areas in Dobropolye and Kramatorsk, Denis Pushilin, the DPR head, said earlier on the Vesti TV news program.

- He noted that Russian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operators are locating and destroying Ukrainian troops south of Dobropolye.

- Pushilin added that Russian forces are encircling the city from the southwest and northeast.

- In an interview with TASS, Pushilin emphasized that the main supply route for the Ukrainian garrison in Kramatorsk and Slavyansk runs through Dobropolye.