DONETSK, October 17. /TASS/. Dobropolye is one of the outermost cities in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) at the border with the Dnepropetrovsk Region and its liberation brings closer the full liberation of the Donbass region from Ukrainian troops, DPR Head Denis Pushilin told TASS.

"This settlement of Dobropolye is actually one of the already outermost localities at the border of the Donetsk People’s Republic towards the Dnepropetrovsk Region. <…> This [the liberation of Dobropolye] has brought us significantly closer to one of the main goals - the full liberation of Donbass," the DPR head said.

On October 16, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov reported to President Vladimir Putin that Russia’s Battlegroup Center had liberated Dobropolye in the Donetsk People’s Republic.

Dobropolye was one of the last few major defensive areas of the Ukrainian army in the Donetsk region.