According to the statement, which was published on the website of the Ministry of Defense, the advance of the ground units towards Konstantinovka was supported by aviation, which was given the task of cutting off the supply routes that pass through the enclave, which is of importance for a large garrison of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Ugledar.

The Ministry of Defense stressed that Russian fighters use pressure tactics, slowly occupy forest clearings, entrench themselves and move on. He also clarified that if the aviation destroys a strategic bridgehead, then the path to the Armed Forces of Ukraine is cut off and the enemy troops retreat closer to Ugledar, from where they aare beginning to get expelled.

Previously it became known that Russian troops blocked the Ugledar-Konstantinovka highway in Donetsk to prevent the movement of Ukrainian forces.

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