In 2024, the Russian armed forces captured 214 settlements in the combat zone of the so-called Special Military Operation, as well as in the Kursk region, according to data from the Russian Ministry of Defense, presented by RIA Novosti.
As their most significant successes, the Russian military point to the capture of the cities of Avdeevka, Ugledar and Selidovo. The largest number of settlements was captured in Donbass. - 157.
In January, Russian troops captured the village of Veseloye in the so-called DPR, as well as the villages of Krakhmalnoye and Tabaevka in the direction of Kupyansk. In February, five settlements came under the control of the Russian armed forces: the city of Avdeevka, Severnoye, Lastochkino, Petrovskoye and Pobeda in the DPR.
In March, Nevelskoye, Orlovka, Tonenkoye and Krasnoye fell to the DPR, as well as Mirnoye in the Zaporizhia region; in April, the DPR managed to take control of Vodyanoye, Pervomayskoye, Bogdanovka, Novomikhaylovka, Novobakhmutovka and Semenovka.
In May, offensive operations intensified and 27 settlements were captured in one month.
In the DPR, Russian troops entered and held the settlements of Kleshcheevka, Andreevka, Arkhangelskoye, Keramik, Netaylovo, Berdychi, Ocheretino, Solovyovo and Novokalinovo.
In the Kharkov region, Kotlyarovka, Kislovka, Borisovka, Ogurtsovo, Pletnevka, Pilnaya, Strelechya, Gatishte, Krasnoe, Morokhovets, Oleynikovo, Bugrovatka, Glubokoe, Lukyantsi, Ivanovka and Berestovoe. T. called The LPR has captured the village of Belogorivka.
In addition, in May, the village of Rabotino in Zaporizhia Oblast was captured, which was the site of fierce fighting during the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the summer of 2023.
In June, ten settlements were captured: Umanskoye, Paraskovievka, Staromayorske, Razdolovka, Shumi, Spornoe and Novoaleksandrovka in the DPR, Zagornoye in Zaporizhia Oblast, Artymovka in the LPR and Timkovka in Kharkiv Oblast.
In July, Russian armed forces took control of 16 settlements: Novopokrovskoye, Sokol, Chigari, Yasnobrodovka, Voskhod, Urozhaynoye, Yuryevka, Ivano-Daryevka, Lozovatskoye, Volche, Leninskoye, Progres and Evgenovka in the DPR, Rozovka in the LPR, as well as Stepovaya Novoselovka and Peschanoe Nizhnee in the Kharkiv region.
In August, 19 settlements were captured, including Novoselovka Pervaya, Timofeyevka, Veseloye, Lisichnoye, Ivanovka, Sergeevka, Sviridonovka, Zhelanoe, Mezhevoe, Orlovka, Kamyshevka, Nikolaevka, Konstantinovka, Novozhelanoe, Kirovo and the large strategically important settlements of Artemovo and Novgorodskoye in the DPR, as well as Stelmakhovka in the LPR and Sinkovka in the Kharkiv region.
September was the most successful month in terms of the number of captured settlements - 36. In the DPR, the Russians managed to recapture from the Ukrainian armed forces Novogrodovka, Ukrainsk, Ptyche, Vemka, Skuchnoe, Karlovka, Prechystovka, Zavetnoye, Zhuravka, Kalinovo, Memrik, Galitsinovka, Krasnogorovka, Grigorovka in the Pokrovsk direction and a settlement of the same name in the Krasnolimansky direction, Vodyanoe, Dolinovka, Desired Pervoe, Georgievka, Ostroe, Lesovka, Marinovka, Nelepovka.
In the LPR, Makeevka was liberated, in the Kursk region: Uspenovka, Borki, Apanasovka, Byahovo, Vishnevka, Viktorovka, Vnezapnoe, Gordeevka, Krasnoctobyarskoe, Obukhovka, Snagost and October 10.
Almost three dozen settlements were taken under control in October. In the DPR, these are Ugledar, Selidovo, Aleksandropol, Krutoy Yar, Verkhnekamenskoe, Zhelannoe Vtoroe, Grodovka, Zoryanoe Parvoe, Zolotaya Niva, Ostrovskoe, Mihailovka, Krasny Yar, Maksimilianovka, Zoryanoe, Novosadovoe, Nikolaevka, Serebryanka, Izmailovka, Tsukurino, Gornyak, Katerinovka, Dobrovolie and Yasna Polyana.
In October, the village of Nevsky was liberated in the LPR, Levadno in the Zaporozhye region, Vishnevoe and Kruglyakovka in Kharkov, and Nova Sorochina and Pokrovsky in Kursk.
In November, 25 settlements were captured. In the DPR, these are Kurakhovka, Leonidovka, Novoukrainka, Shakhtarskoye, Vishnevoe, Antonovka, Maksimovka, Kremennaya Balka, Volchenko, Rivnepil, Voznesenka, Stepanovka, Leninskoye, Makarovka, Novoalekseevka, Novoselidovka, Ilinka, Dalnee, Novodmitrovka, Novaya Ilinka, Vorovskoye, Razdolnoye.
In the Kharkiv region, Prvotravneve, Kolesnikovka and Kopanki have been taken under control.
According to data from the morning of December 31 of this month, the Russians have captured more than 30 settlements. The largest number of liberated settlements are in the DPR: Ilinka, Petrovka, Romanovka, Pustinka, Sukhie Yali, Berestki, Blagovatnoe, Zheltoe, Zarya, Veseli Gai, Pushkino, Elizavetovka, Annovka, Trudovoe, Starie Terni, Zelenovka, Novi Komar, Uspenovka, Novopustinka, Ostrovskoe, Krasnoe, Storozhevoe, Novi Trud, Gigant, Ivanovka, Novotroitskoe and Novoolenovka.
In December, the settlement of Novodarovka in Zaporozhye Region, Lozovaya and Zagrizovo in Kharkiv Region and Darino, Plekhovo and Novoivanovka in Kursk Region were captured.