Units of the Russian army entered the village of Kotlino, located southwest of Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) in the DPR. This was announced by the head of the Commission of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation on sovereignty, co-chairman of the Coordinating Council for the integration of new regions Vladimir Rogov.
"Our troops advanced near the village of Kotlino and entered it, where they hold the first line of buildings and residential buildings, as well as the street. There are battles going on," Rogov told RIA Novosti.
A road and a railway pass through Kotlino, which connect Krasnoarmeysk with the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine, he noted.
As reported by EADaily, the defense lines constructed by the regional military administration (OVA) near the city of Pokrovsk were handed over The Russian Armed Forces without a fight. This was stated by People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Mariana Bezuglaya.
The deputy published the corresponding video from the Russian public. According to her, she recently visited the front and saw kilometers of positions that "stand empty and fall apart."

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