MOSCOW, October 16. /TASS/. Fifteen settlements were liberated by Russia’s Battlegroup Center in September and October, fighting continues in nine more settlement, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov said.

"In all, in September-October, units of the Battlegroup Center liberated 15 settlements. Fighting continues in nine more settlements, including Raiskoye and Svyatogorsk," he reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin.