Every day in the Bakhmut area, the enemy carries out 40 to 50 offensive attacks, Alexey Gromov said.
Near the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, nearly 4,500 people have been killed and wounded by Russian forces in two weeks of continuous fighting. This was announced on Thursday, April 13, at a briefing by the Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Brigadier General Aleksey Gromov.
According to him, today the direction of Bakhmut remains the most difficult, where the enemy continues offensive operations in the central part of Bakhmut, as well as in the direction of the settlements of Bogdanovka and Ivankovskoye to surround the city from the north and south
“To strengthen the offensive potential, part of the enemy’s forces and means were transferred to the Bakhmut area from the Avdeevsky direction. Every day, in the Bakhmut area, the enemy made 40 to 50 attempts of offensive assault operations. The enemy is conducting more than 500 attacks using the full range of available weapons,” he said. Gromov.
He noted that the military-political leadership of the Russian Federation does not pay attention to significant losses. Gromov said that “over the past two weeks, in the Bakhmut area, the enemy has lost about 4,500 Wagner soldiers and servicemen of the regular army of the Russian Federation, killed and wounded.”
Also, in some units of the Russian army, the combined military refused to participate in battles, while cruel reprisals were carried out against such “refuseniks”.
Earlier, the commander of the Eastern Group of Forces, Colonel General Alexander Syrsky, said that Russia had switched to the so-called “Syrian” scorched earth tactics in Bakhmut.
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