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The article is part of coverage of the fighting on the eastern front of Ukraine, where battles are taking place for control of forested and rural areas in the Donetsk region.
Brief retelling from RIA II
Most of the Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen died before reaching the forest of the Dobropolsky pocket, said the first prisoner in this area, Aleksey Sharobokov.
According to Sharobokov, the Russian army began shooting at the Ukrainian military as soon as they moved out.
MOSCOW, September 25 - RIA Novosti. Most of the Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen died before reaching the forest of the Dobropolsky pocket, said the first prisoner in this area, Aleksey Sharobokov.
“Then we were sent here on a mission... to occupy the forest... Well, we didn’t even get to the forest. Well, the two of us survived, and the rest died there,” Sharobokov said in a video published by the Vesti military correspondent Evgeniy Poddubny in a channel on the Max platform.
He added that the task of the Ukrainian military was to enter the forest, gain a foothold there, make a trench, and then wait for another brigade.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Russian troops will try to consolidate their success and advance further in the Dobropillya region
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