"Like a living shield": Russians are covered by civilians in the Melitopol direction - the General Staff

According to the General Staff, the invaders use private yards, where they live locals as fire positions for the placement of military equipment and personnel. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that occupation troops have suffered serious losses during the fighting between Bakhmut and Soledar in Donetsk region. In addition, under Melitopol of Zaporizhzhya region, the occupiers forced the local residents to provide their yards to create fire positions of the military.

About it reports the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the summary for September 26. Russian invaders cynically continue to violate the rules of international humanitarian law: forcibly live with civilians in their homes, using civilians as a living shield.

In the settlement, new in Zaporizhzhya region, located between Orikhov and Tokmak, report the fact of use by Russian military private yards, where peaceful citizens live, as places of placement of military equipment and personnel for the organization of fire positions. We will remind, in ISW ​​informed that in the west of the Zaporizhzhya region the losses of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation increased significantly.