Sergei Cherevaty said that there is currently no mass withdrawal of troops from this city.
Russia does not control Bakhmut in the Donetsk region. There is no mass withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from there today. This was announced on Saturday, March 4, by a representative of the Eastern Group of Forces, Sergei Cherevaty, in a comment to CNN.
“The fighting in Bakhmut is more outside, and the city itself is controlled by the Ukrainian Defense Forces: the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Border Service and the National Guard … There is also no mass withdrawal of Ukrainian troops,” he. explained.
The spokesperson also commented on reports about the withdrawal of some units. According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting a controlled, planned rotation of positions in Bakhmut.
Cherevaty noted that on Saturday, March 4, battles were taking place around Bakhmut, in the villages of Vasyukovka and Dubovo-Vasilyevka to the north of the city, as well as in the villages of Ivanovskoye and Bogdanovka to its west.
“Just near Bakhmut, 21 enemy attacks took place using various artillery systems and MLRS, as well as nine combat clashes. In total, 131 shelling and 38 clashes took place on this front,” he said.
The representative of the Armed Forces of Ukraine added that more than 150 Russian servicemen were killed, 239 were wounded, three were captured.
As already reported, the commander of the Eastern Group of Forces, Colonel-General Alexander Syrsky, arrived in Bakhmut, Donetsk region.
In addition, it is known that the Russian invaders in the battles for Bakhmut lost seven times more military than the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
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Source: korrespondent
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