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, 3 weeks and 5 days) Location Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine Surrounding satellite settlements 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 Southern Military District 8th Guards Combined Arms Army 1st Army Corps	Armed Forces of Ukraine  Ukrainian Ground Forces Special Operations Forces 8th Separate Regiment[1]
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 settlements east of it, Pivdenne, Zalizne, Druzhba, Pivnichne, and Shumy, and the settlement south of it, 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.