Battle of Toretsk

Battle of Toretsk
	Part of the eastern front of the Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)
	; Situation around Toretsk in early August 2025
Date	18 June 2024 – 7 August 2025 (1 year, 1 month and 20 days)
Location	Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine; Surrounding satellite settlements
Status	Russian victory
Territorial; changes	Russian forces capture Toretsk and the settlements of Shumy, Zalizne, Pivdenne, Druzhba, Pivnichne, Niu-York and Petrivka
Belligerents
Russia Russian Armed Forces; ;	Ukraine Armed Forces of Ukraine; ;
Units involved
Russian Ground Forces 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army 27th Motor Rifle Division 506th Motor Rifle Regiment; 589th Motor Rifle Regiment; ; ; 51st Guards Combined Arms Army 1st Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade 109th Separate Rifle Regiment "Tserber" group; ; ; 9th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade Somalia Battalion; 2nd Motor Rifle Battalion; ; 132nd Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade 101st Separate Rifle Regiment 3rd Battalion; ; ; Sparta Battalion; 56th Separate Special Purpose Battalion; ; 8th Guards Combined Arms Army 150th Guards Motor Rifle Division "Afipsa" Storm Battalion; 103rd Motorized Rifle Regiment; ; 238th Artillery Brigade; ; "Orcs" drone detachment; ;	Ukrainian Ground Forces 12th Azov Brigade; 28th Mechanized Brigade; Special Operations Forces 8th Separate Regiment 2nd Tank Company; ; ; ; National Guard of Ukraine 35th Regiment; ; Special Tasks Patrol Police Safari Regiment; Khyzhak Brigade; ;
Casualties and losses
	See § Casualty claims

The Battle of Toretsk was an engagement in the Russo-Ukrainian war between the Russian Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of Ukraine for control of the city of Toretsk and the settlements in the surrounding area, beginning on 18 June 2024. The effort to control the city was part of the renewed effort to capture portions of Donetsk Oblast. By 7 August 2025, after over a year of urban warfare, Russia seized the city, the largest captured since Bakhmut over two years earlier.