The Armed Forces lead on the flanks under Bakhmut: the enemy resists - General Staff (video)

The opposing parties fight for initiative. According to the speaker of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces Andrei Kovalev, in the Bakhmut region of defense forces have partial success and are fixed on the reached boundaries. In the Bakhmut direction, hostilities intensified. Defense forces continue to put pressure on the enemy's position, for their part, Russian troops are insulating and trying to attack Lyman, Avdeev and Mariinsky directions.

This was reported by a spokesman of the Armed Forces General Staff Andriy Kovalev. According to him, Ukrainian defenders on flanks in the Bakhmut area have partial success, knock out the enemy from the occupied positions and are fixed on the reached boundaries. "The enemy makes fierce resistance, suffered huge losses. There are heavy fights," Kovalev said.

The partial successes of the Ukrainian troops were also reported by the commander of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel-General Alexander Sirsky. He published the staff of the Ukrainian soldiers of the 17th Separate Tank Brigade, which from the M-109 SAU fire on an enemy tank. "The Bakhmut direction. There is a promotion of our forces on the flanks and the effective destruction of the Russians," the commander wrote in the comments.

According to the press service of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, in the Bakhmut direction, under the dense fire of aviation and enemy artillery, our defenders successfully repelled 9 attacks of the enemy in the areas of Grigorivka, Bogdanivka, west of Yagidny, Ivanovsky and southeast of Belaya Hill, Donetsk region. Under Marinka, the defense forces managed to restrain 15 enemy attacks.

The Russians continue their artillery on the entire section of the Donetsk front - dozens of settlements, including Kramatorsk, Konstantinovka, Vasyukivka, Bogdanivka, Yar, Predict, Avdiivka, Severne, Vodyane, Klischivka and others, have come under the fire. We will remind, the Deputy Minister of Defense Anna Malyar reported on July 3, that the situation was aggravated in the Bakhmut direction.