In Bakhmut, heavy fighting continues near the station. To the north of the station, the Russians who broke through the railway were sent back. Shooting battles also took place near the Transit hotel, the police department, and the pre-trial detention center.
This was reported by Ukrainian soldiers of the 46th brigade defending the city.
In their TG channel, the military writes that no one will specifically hold the front along the railway lines.
He is kept where possible. No need to make yourself an additional information fetish. As around the railway station, tax or administration. Now they are just buildings, the capture or abandonment of which affects or does not affect the defense, the fighters said.
The Russians, according to their reports, have partially entered the 0504 highway and are trying to gain a foothold. This aggravates the logistics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and gives the Russians an opportunity to enter Yubileynaya Street.
No one is running from Bakhmut, don’t spread panic. The withdrawal is carried out systematically, taking into account the need for troops here, according to the 46th brigade.
Location-confirmed footage captured by the Russians outside the train station suggests that Russian forces have advanced further into the center of Bakhmut, the Institute of War reported on April 8.
Other images show Wagner’s forces standing outside the Bakhmut military prosecutor’s office. Also, geolocation footage released on April 6 shows that Russian troops advanced about three kilometers south of the T0504 Konstantinovka-Chasy Yar-Bakhmut highway.
Russian military bloggers claimed that Wagner forces captured several buildings in the center of Bakhmut, including the Metallurg stadium, the Bakhmut hotel and the Church of All Saints,” the Institute also notes in its construction.
The Russian army continues to concentrate its main efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions. Over the past day, thanks to the courage of every soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, more than 60 enemy attacks were repelled in these areas, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report on April 8.
In the Limansky direction of the past day, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive operations south of Kremennaya, as well as in the areas of Serebryansky forestry and Verkhnekamensky.
In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy continues to conduct offensive operations, trying to take full control of the city of Bakhmut, fierce battles continue. Over the past day, the enemy has conducted unsuccessful offensive operations in the area east of Bogdanovka and Ivanovsky. The units of the defense forces repulsed about 20 enemy attacks on this sector of the front.
On the Avdeevka and Maryinsky directions, the enemy conducted offensive operations in the areas of Novokalinovoye, Severny, Pervomaisky, Marinka and Pobeda of the Donetsk region, but was not successful. The fiercest fighting on this sector of the front continues beyond Marinka, where more than 15 enemy attacks were repulsed.
Source: Racurs
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