The 66th Separate Mechanized Brigade showed a new video of Operation Vivaldi, namely fragments of the offensive, during which the defenders liberated the village of Shandrigolovo in the Donetsk region. This was done by the soldiers of the 2nd mechanized battalion " They were the first to enter the populated area, using their own tactics against the Russians..

“By infiltrating into the enemy’s battle formations, enemy groups were cut off in the central part of the village,” said the 66th.

Next, soldiers of a tank battalion and a reconnaissance company “joined” the operation. They carried out the final cleansing of the Russian occupiers. At this time, soldiers of the 1st mechanized and motorized infantry battalion " This allowed the Ukrainian Armed Forces to strengthen the defense of not only this village, but also the settlement of Sredneye.

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Let us recall that on September 15, the commander of the Third Army Corps and the head of the Center group of troops, Andrei Biletsky, said that the Ukrainian military was conducting the offensive operation “Vivaldi” in the north of the Donetsk region. According to him, within the first and second of four planned stages, the defenders have already managed to “break the claw” of the enemy: liberate 125 sq.. km, of which 50 km will be completely deoccupied. In addition, the Ukrainian Armed Forces dealt a crushing blow to the combat effectiveness of the 20th and 25th armies of the Russian Federation, as well as to the elite Rubicon unit, which the command even had to “remove” from the Liman-Borovsk direction.