A fighter of the Russian Armed Forces told about the tricks of storming Dobropillya

Savvy helped Russian soldiers during the assault on Dobropillya in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). Grisha Stepanyan, with the call sign Cup, commander of the airborne assault battalion of the 61st Separate Guards Marine Brigade of the Center group, told Izvestia on October 19 about the liberation of the settlement from the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).

The Russian fighters got close to the enemy unnoticed. The stormtroopers walked in small groups to the industrial zone — they had to cover up to 35 km in a few days. When the main phase of the assault on Dobropillya began, the enemy was attacked with all guns.

"The opponent did not expect it, and it played into our hands. He was very relaxed both in the industrial area and in the city. We were prepared. It played a big role, and also the suddenness," Stepanyan said.

He told how, when entering the industrial zone, four of his fighters secured themselves in a two-story house, met unsuspecting Ukrainians there and talked to them in Russian. They gave out all the information about themselves.

"My guys went in there. There was no one there, they cleaned everything up. And four enemy fighters enter. They talked to them in Russian for two minutes. They didn't understand anything. Our people somehow acted cunningly, they talked it out. And they (the Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters. — Ed.) they told us what kind of unit they were going to, where they were going, to which points," the military recalls.

As a result, our drone calculations worked out at these points. The Russian fighters also note the poor training of the Ukrainian military personnel abandoned in Dobropillya, and their lack of motivation.

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On October 16, the Russian army took control of Dobropillya and Alekseevo-Druzhkovka in the DPR. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on the same day that taking control of Dobropillya was an important event for the liberation of the entire Donbas and the obvious success of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov congratulated the command and military personnel of the four formations on the liberation of Dobropillya. Among the units marked are the 110th and 114th separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigades, the 61st Separate Guards Kirkenes Red Banner Marine Brigade and the 177th Separate Guards Marine Regiment.