Map of the special operation in Ukraine on October 28

A special military operation to protect the civilian population of Donbass has been conducted by Russia since February 24, 2022. You can track the progress of the joint forces of Russia, the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), as well as a map of military operations on October 28 in the Izvestia material.

The North group of troops defeated Ukrainian armed formations in Sumy and Kharkiv regions. As a result of the actions of Russian military personnel, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) lost up to 205 militants, two armored combat vehicles, 10 vehicles and an artillery piece, four radio-electronic and counter-battery warfare stations, six ammunition and materiel depots.

In addition, in the area of Kupyansk, the Russian military continued to tighten the encirclement of the AFU group. In the village of Petropavlovsk, 40 buildings were cleared of Ukrainian militants. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation also eliminated a group of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers who were trying to cross by boat to the right bank of the Oskol River. Two attempts to unblock the encircled enemy group from the settlement of Nechvolodovka were prevented.

"The Troyanda neighborhood has been completely cleared of Ukrainian militants. The assault groups, <...> advancing in the eastern part of the settlement of Dimitrov in the Donetsk People's Republic, defeated and drove out the AFU units from their positions in the area of mine 5/6. An attempt by the enemy to launch a counterattack on armored vehicles from the Grishino settlement of the Donetsk People's Republic to unblock the encircled AFU group was stopped. Three attempts by Ukrainian armed formations to break out of the encirclement in the northern direction were thwarted," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

The Russian army, with the help of aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), missiles and artillery, defeated energy facilities that provided the work of enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine, a military airfield, a railway train with weapons and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, production workshops, storage and launch sites for drones, temporary deployment points of Ukrainian armed forces in 158 districts.. In turn, air defense systems shot down 124 aircraft-type drones.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, since the beginning of the special operation, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost 668 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 93,049 UAVs, 633 anti-aircraft missile systems, 25,733 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,607 multiple rocket launchers, 30,854 field artillery and mortars, 45,132 pieces of special vehicles.

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