Recently, during the special military operation in Ukraine, 6 settlements of the "Donetsk People's Republic" were liberated, the liberation of the "DPR" is going according to plan.

APA reports with reference to TASS that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said this in his speech at the selectors' meeting.

He said that Grigorovka, Berestovor, Stryapovka, Pokrovskoe, Semigorye and Novoluganskoe residential areas and the Ugledar Thermal Power Station were recently taken under control.

Shoigu also made a statement about the Western equipment destroyed during the war in Ukraine.

"During a special military operation, the Russian military destroyed 33 US-made M777 howitzers, 6 launchers of HIMARS systems and more than 200 missiles, 5 Harpoon anti-ship missile systems in Ukraine."

In addition, he said that Ukraine lost 125 Stinger, 396 NLAW and Javelin missile complexes.