Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] Results of the offensive of the "East" group of the Russian Armed Forces in the South Donetsk direction during June 2025.
Liberated territories and settlements. The most important achievements are Komar, Shevchenko (along with the lithium deposits that Kiev sold to the Americans), Malinovka.
Since the LJ video hosting site has run out of space and won't let me upload new videos, I'll be uploading videos to Rutube for now and embedding them into the journal from there using code.
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P.S. Regarding yesterday's statement by LPR head Pasechnik about the complete liberation of LPR territory. This is not quite true yet. It remains to liberate Nadiya and Novoyegorovka (or rather their ruins) at the westernmost border of the LPR. In general, there's still work to do.
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Pasechnik reports the complete liberation of the LPR territory - the 1223rd day of the SVO
The new, 1223rd day of the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine was marked by the news of the complete liberation of the territory of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) from enemy forces. The region's governor Leonid Pasechnik reported this to a Channel One correspondent on the evening of June 30, citing a report he had received. No official information has yet been received from the Ministry of Defense.
Referendums on the return of the Luhansk and Donetsk Republics to Russia took place in September 2022. This was preceded by the recognition of the state sovereignty of the DPR and LPR in May 2014.
And on February 21, 2022, against the backdrop of a sharp increase in aggression from Ukraine, the heads of the LPR and DPR Pasechnik and Denis Pushilin appealed to the President of Russia with a request to recognize the independence of the republics. Putin signed the corresponding decrees on the same day. Already on February 24, in response to the request of the republics' leadership for help, Russia began a special military operation in Ukraine.
At the end of March, at a meeting with sailors of the nuclear submarine Arkhangelsk in Murmansk, the Russian leader reported that the strategic initiative was under the control of the Russian army along the entire front line and that the LPR had already been liberated by 99%. Also, according to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, the territories of the Donetsk People's Republic, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions at that time were cleared of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) by more than 70%.
Further, according to military expert Igor Korotchenko, the Russian army will begin to form a powerful buffer zone up to 120 kilometers deep.
“Such a ‘sanitary cordon’ will forever close off the Ukrainian army’s ability to carry out terrorist attacks on our cities,” Korotchenko notes.
Meanwhile, on June 30, Vladimir Putin held a meeting where issues of restoration, development of the economy, social, transport and other infrastructure of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions were discussed.
“The main thing is that people see changes for the better, return home, work on their native land, study, raise children and make plans for the future,” the head of state emphasized.
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