Telephone conversation with Guards Colonel Abdulaziz Shikhabidov, Commander of the 76th Guards Airborne Assault Division

Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Guards Colonel Abdulaziz Shikhabidov, Commander of the 76^th Guards Air Assault Division.

The Supreme Commander-in-Chief heard a report on the combat situation along the line of contact in the Dobropolye tactical sector within the division's area of responsibility and thanked the division's personnel for their service in combat.

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Abdulaziz Shikhabidov: Comrade Supreme Commander-in-Chief, good evening.

Colonel Shikhabidov, Commander of the 76^th Guards Air Assault Division, reporting.

Following the full liberation of the Kursk Region and the establishment of a buffer zone in the Sumy Region, the division, acting on the instructions of the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, is carrying out combat missions as part of the Tsentr Group in the Dobropolye tactical sector.

Units of the division took part in completing the capture of Krasnoarmeysk and liberated Grishino, Novoalexandrovka, Vasilyevka, and Shevchenko. The division's formations and units continue to take part in the liberation of the Donetsk People's Republic.

Comrade Supreme Commander-in-Chief,

Combat operations are being conducted virtually without interruption through the active use of new tactics and methods of warfare and the continued improvement of unmanned systems capabilities and assets. To maintain the ability to conduct active combat operations, combat training activities are continuously held at the division's training ranges for battalions undergoing restoration of their combat readiness.

To be continued.