Battle of Toretsk

Battle of Toretsk
Part of the eastern Ukraine campaign of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
A building in Toretsk after Russian shelling in July 2024
Date 18 June 2024 – present (1 month, 2 weeks and 6 days) Location Toretsk, Toretsk urban hromada, Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine Surrounding satellite cities Status Ongoing Territorial changes Russian forces capture Shumy and parts of Zalizne, Pivdenne, Druzhba, Pivnichne, and Niu-York.
Belligerents
Russia	Ukraine
Units involved
Russian Armed Forces  Russian Ground Forces Central Military District 2nd Guards Tank Army 27th Motorized Rifle Division 506th motorized rifle regiment[1] 589th motorized rifle regiment[1] Southern Military District 8th Guards Combined Arms Army 1st Army Corps 3rd Motorized Rifle Brigade[2] Mariupol–Khingan Naval Infantry[3] 132nd Motorized Rifle Brigade[1]	Armed Forces of Ukraine  Ukrainian Ground Forces Special Operations Forces 8th Separate Regiment[4]
Casualties and losses
See § Casualty claims

The battle of Toretsk is an ongoing engagement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine between the Russian Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of Ukraine for control of the city of Toretsk and the satellite cities east of it of Pivdenne, Zalizne, Druzhba, Pivnichne, and Shumy, and the settlement south of it of Niu-York, beginning on 18 June 2024. The effort to control the city is part of a renewed effort to capture portions of Donetsk Oblast and, according to a Ukrainian military spokesman, an attempt to flank the highly contested city of Chasiv Yar from the south.