"Give battle on the approaches": The Armed Forces fighter told about Bakhmut's defense (video)
The personnel were published on the Telegram-channel of the representative of the Odessa Regional Military-Civil Administration Sergey Bratchuk. "Defense forces keep (enemy) on the approaches. We give a fight. Glory to Ukraine," the Ukrainian defender said. According to the Armed Forces General Staff of the Armed Forces, the enemy made the main efforts in the Donbass on Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiiv, Mariinsky and Shakhtar.
Under the Bakhmut, the forces of defense reflect attacks, in particular near the settlements of Minskivka and Orikhovo-Vasylivka. For his part, the enemy struck artillery blows to the settlements Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Bogdanivka, Bakhmut, the times of Yar, Kurdyumivka, Druzhba, Mayorsk and New York of Donetsk region. "In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy does not attempt to capture the city of Bakhmut.
Our defenders repelled the enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Minkivka and Orikhovo-Vasylivka," the General Staff press service said. We will remind, on March 12, the Defense Express expert Ivan Kirichevsky stated that Ukrainian defenders destroyed in the Bakhmut direction so many enemy troops that would be enough for an offensive of the strategic level. According to him, in an attempt to capture Bakhmut, the enemy lost about 50,000 soldiers and up to 200 tanks.