Defense forces destroyed 175 occupiers in Bakhmut direction, 5 UAVs, and 4 ammunition depots, - Cherevaty
The Russian invaders are concentrating their main efforts on Bakhmut.
This was stated by the spokesman of the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel Serhii Cherevaty, Censor.NET informs with reference to Interfax-Ukraine.
"For the enemy, the concentration of the main efforts is precisely on Bakhmut. In fact, it does not conduct such powerful combat operations anywhere else in our operational zone of responsibility. In particular, during this day, he attacked our positions 23 times, struck 280 times with various types of artillery, and carried out 4 air raids. Only in the Bakhmut area, there were 85 shelling and 20 combat clashes.
175 occupiers were killed in these battles, 213 were wounded, an enemy T-272 tank was knocked out, 4 infantry fighting vehicles, 3 Msta-B guns, 5 unmanned aerial systems, 1 radio-electronic warfare station, and 4 field warehouses with ammunition," he said.
Cherevaty noted that he has no right to divulge the exact ratio of the number of liquidated occupiers to losses in the ranks of Ukrainian defenders, but, according to him, it is multiple.
"The number (of dead occupiers. - Ed.) for the entire period of Bakhmut's defense is already in the tens of thousands, and I think our analysts will come up with this number more accurately over time. And the fact that the "Wagner" criminal group is no longer able to independently carry out combat tasks there, as it wanted to do before, effectively monopolizing this direction, is increasingly used as airborne units of the occupier's troops, and special forces. Therefore, we understand: the enemy's losses are very significant. And I think that this is the final stage for Wagner," said the spokesman.
