OREANDA-NEWS  Russian troops have launched an offensive operation to retake the city of Krasny Liman, located on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). War correspondent Andrei Kotz said this in an interview Ura.ru .

He noted that by now the Russian military is advancing in the area of the villages of Terny, Torskoye and Yampol. According to him, taking this line will allow them to reach the Red Estuary. "From there, respectively, the road opens to Slavyansk and the Kharkiv region. That is, this is an important milestone that must be taken somehow," Kotz added.