Bakhmut battles: The Armed Forces examines the withdrawal of troops from the city, but the defense continues (video)
A representative of the eastern group of the Armed Forces Sergey Cherevaty told about the situation in one of the hottest points on the Eastern Front on the Eastern Front. The speaker of the Armed Forces reported that in the Bakhmut direction hostilities were carried out near the settlements, Krasna Gora, Paraskovka, Bakhmut, Tick. In the process of fighting, the enemy lost 277 killed, 258 people were injured. "Bakhmut continues to be one of the main directions of the enemy.
There he 197 times struck the puncher reactive artillery in our positions. There were 42 fighting collisions," Cherevaty said. According to him, in connection with the difficult situation, the Ukrainian military command closely monitors the situation and has different options for actions depending on the steps of the enemy, which he performs.
Cherevaty also cited the example of defense of Lisichansk, where the forces of defense for a long time destroyed the great forces of the enemy, because of which his rapid advance stopped, and after a while the Armed Forces held a counter -offensive towards Liman, liberating the Kharkiv region. "The withdrawal cannot just happen. The command has different variants of action and monitors the enemy. For each of its actions - we have opposition," Cherevaty said.
The leader of the telemorathon raised the question of the route towards Bakhmut, to which the occupiers try to break through to cut the supply to Ukrainian defenders. But the Speaker of the Armed Forces emphasized that the route on Bakhmut from the west is not blocked, which allows our fighters to deliver everything necessary - equipment, ammunition, food and more.
We will remind, the head of the united Press Center of Defense forces of Tavriysky direction Yevgeny Erin reported on January 31 that the Armed Forces have information about the transfer to the Zaporizhzhya region of units of PEC "Wagner". According to him, in this way the opponent tries to activate offensive actions in this direction.