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Toretsk (Russian: Торецк) is an industrial city in Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Toretsk urban hromada . As of January 2022, its population was approximately 30,914.
Its administrative center is the city Toretsk. [1] It has an area of 67.5 square kilometres (26.1 sq mi) and a population of 66,369, as of 2020. [2] The hromada contains 19 settlements: 2 cities (Toretsk and Zalizne), 2 villages (Leonidivka and Yuryivka), and 15 rural settlements: [2]
On 21 July 2023, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian shelling killed two children and injured a woman in the settlement. [2]As part of a renewed effort to capture Donetsk Oblast, the Russian Armed Forces gained a foothold within Druzhba as well as other satellite settlements of Toretsk and the Niu-York urban area, as geolocated footage by DeepState confirmed.
The battle of Toretsk is an ongoing engagement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine between the Russian Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of Ukraine for control of the city of Toretsk and the settlements in the surrounding area, [a] beginning on 18 June 2024.
On 18 June, Russia launched a new offensive towards the city of Toretsk, [332] and by 21 June had captured a village east of it, Shumy. [333] [334] Fighting began in the satellite settlements east of Toretsk of Pivdenne, Zalizne, Druzhba, and Pivnichne, and by the end of June Russian forces had a foothold in all of these settlements.
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Russia's push for Toretsk is one of the most active combat zones in the Donetsk region, with Moscow's forces also moving towards Pokrovsk, a key Ukrainian transport hub located around 70km (43 ...
Ukrainian military observer Kostyantyn Mashovets claimed that the Russian Central Grouping of Forces, which operates in the Pokrovsk and Toretsk directions (northwest and northeast of Avdiivka), had over 86,000 personnel, 280 tanks, 760 armored vehicles, and around 1,100 tube and rocket artillery systems.