Pushilin noted the successes of the Russian army in the DPR

Russian military personnel have liberated all the settlements of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), from where the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) launched a counteroffensive in 2023. This was announced on June 23 by the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.

"With his release (of the settlement of Perestroika. In fact, all the settlements from where the notorious counteroffensive of the armed formations of Ukraine began in 2023 were liberated," he said on the Rossiya-24 TV channel.

Pushilin noted that over the past week, the Russian Armed Forces liberated several settlements in the DPR, including Ulyanovsk, Zaporizhia, Novonikolayevka and Perebudova. He stressed that the entire territory occupied by the militants of the Kiev regime in 2023 had come under the control of Russian military personnel.

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On June 21, Pushilin stated in the Izvestia studio at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2025) that the liberation of every settlement in the DPR was of critical importance to Russia. According to him, the advance of the Russian military towards the Dnipropetrovsk region is due not only to the idea of creating a sanitary zone, but also to the "logic of warfare."