MOSCOW, September 25. /TASS/. Russian forces are in control of all the logistical routes of the Ukrainian military leading to the Dobropolye settlement in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

"The Dobropolye settlement in the Donetsk People’s Republic is a heavily fortified area of the Ukrainian armed forces and an important transport hub through which one of the main supply routes for Ukrainian troops runs from the Dnepropetrovsk Region. Units of the Battlegroup Center continue to destroy Ukrainian troop formations blocked in the Dobropolye settlement in the Donetsk People’s Republic, all Ukrainian army’s logistics routes to the populated locality are under full control and round-the-clock surveillance by Russian UAV operators, which makes it possible to detect and thwart any enemy attempts to break through," the ministry said in a statement.

Since the enemy was encircled in Dobropolye, Russian forces have eliminated over 170 Ukrainian personnel in the area, the ministry reported earlier.