MELITOPOL, February 18. /TASS/. Russian forces seized four Ukrainian army’s strongholds near the settlement of Rabotino in the Zaporozhye Region, Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the We Are Together with Russia public movement, told TASS.

"Yesterday and this night we seized four strongholds of the Ukrainian army near Rabotino," he said.

The Russian Defense Ministry said earlier that units of the battlegroup Dnepr seized more favorable positions and struck the enemy's personnel and equipment near Rabotino and Verbovoye in the Zaporozhye Region.