{"id":28753,"date":"2026-09-07T12:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/?p=28753"},"modified":"2026-09-07T12:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:07:06","slug":"biletskyi-zsu-kontrol-sviatohirsk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/viyna\/biletskyi-zsu-kontrol-sviatohirsk\/","title":{"rendered":"Biletskyy stated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were in control of Sviatohirsk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"news-lead\">Brigadier General Andriy Biletsky, commander of the Third Army Corps, stated in a video address from the centre of Svyatogorsk that the city is fully under the control of the corps\u2019 60th Mechanised Brigade. The video, filmed against the backdrop of the Holy Dormition Svyatogorsk Lavra, was a response to Russian claims that the town had allegedly been captured.<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-summary-box\">\n<p><strong>Briefly about the main points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Biletsky recorded a message in the centre of Svyatogorsk.<\/li>\n<li>According to him, the city is under the control of the 60th Mechanised Brigade.<\/li>\n<li>The commander described Svyatogorsk as, in effect, a rear area.<\/li>\n<li>Previously, Ukraine\u2019s control over the city had been confirmed by the military and the regional administration.<\/li>\n<li>The community remains at risk due to Russian shelling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Response to Russian statements<\/h2>\n<p>In the statement <strong>Biletsky<\/strong> He called on the Russian military and military-political leadership not to spread false reports. He emphasised that the 60th Mechanised Brigade is holding Sviatohirsk in its entirety, and that the town is \u00abeffectively a rear area\u00bb \u2014 this is the commander\u2019s assessment.<\/p>\n<p>The 60th Separate Mechanised Brigade is part of the Third Army Corps. Russian claims regarding the alleged capture of Svyatogorsk emerged on 1\u20132 September.<\/p>\n<h2>Ukrainian authorities had previously confirmed their control over the city<\/h2>\n<p>On 2 September, a spokesperson for the \u00abEast\u00bb military group\u00bb <strong>Grigory Shapoval<\/strong> stated that the Ukrainian Defence Forces are in full control of Sviatohirsk. On 6 September, the Donetsk Regional Military Administration also reported that the town remains under Ukrainian control, describing the Russian reports as false.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the Donetsk Regional Military Administration described the security situation in the Sviatohirsk community as challenging: due to the proximity of the front line, the town and the community are under constant Russian shelling.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine\u2019s control over Svyatogorsk has been confirmed by Biletsky, the \u00abSxid\u00bb group and the Donetsk Regional Military Administration; shelling continues in the community.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":207433346,"featured_media":28752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_description":"\u041a\u043e\u043d\u0442\u0440\u043e\u043b\u044c \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0438 \u043d\u0430\u0434 \u0421\u0432\u044f\u0442\u043e\u0433\u0456\u0440\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e\u043c \u043f\u0456\u0434\u0442\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0434\u0436\u0443\u044e\u0442\u044c \u0411\u0456\u043b\u0435\u0446\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439, \u0443\u0433\u0440\u0443\u043f\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044f \u00ab\u0421\u0445\u0456\u0434\u00bb \u0456 \u0414\u043e\u043d\u0435\u0446\u044c\u043a\u0430 \u041e\u0412\u0410; \u0443 \u0433\u0440\u043e\u043c\u0430\u0434\u0456 \u0442\u0440\u0438\u0432\u0430\u044e\u0442\u044c \u043e\u0431\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0456\u043b\u0438.","rank_math_title":"\u0421\u0432\u044f\u0442\u043e\u0433\u0456\u0440\u0441\u044c\u043a \u043f\u0456\u0434 \u043a\u043e\u043d\u0442\u0440\u043e\u043b\u0435\u043c \u0417\u0421\u0423 \u0447\u0438 \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0456\u0457: \u0437\u0430\u044f\u0432\u0430 \u0411\u0456\u043b\u0435\u0446\u044c\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e","rank_math_focus_keyword":"\u0421\u0432\u044f\u0442\u043e\u0433\u0456\u0440\u0441\u044c\u043a","td_subtitle":"","subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[806815],"tags":[805623],"class_list":["post-28753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-viyna","tag-805623"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207433346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28754,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28753\/revisions\/28754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}