Volodimir Zelensky reported this Sunday that in the battle of Bakhmut (east) Ukrainian forces have eliminated more than 1,100 Russian soldiers this week alone and have caused serious injuries to another 1,500 invading soldiers.
“In less than a week – since March 6 – only in the Bakhmut sector (our warriors) managed to eliminate more than 1,100 enemy soldiers, which are irreversible losses for Russia, losses there near Bakhmut,” the Ukrainian president said. in an evening speech.
In addition, the Ukrainians have caused “at least 1,500 more sanitary losses of the enemy: these are injuries incompatible with the continuation of the fighting,” according to the Ukrainian leader.
In the battle of Bakhmut, according to Zelensky, Ukrainian defending forces have destroyed in the last seven days more than ten Russian ammunition depots and dozens of units of enemy equipment were destroyed.
The Ukrainian defenders continue to contain the Russian Army in Donbas (eastern Ukraine), where they repelled 92 attacks during the last day, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
“The enemy did not stop his attacks on the city of Bakhmut (…) Overall, 15 settlements suffered as a result of shelling by the occupiers,” the Ukrainian military command said.
According to the statement published on Facebook and which includes Ukrainian Pravda,”the main goal of the enemy during the day remained the attempt to break through to the administrative boundaries of the Donetsk and Lughansk regions”.
“For this, the enemy concentrated its main efforts on carrying out offensive actions in the Liman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Marinka and Shakhtarsk directions. Thanks to professional and coordinated actions, our defenders repelled 92 enemy attacks in these directions”, he specified.
The General Staff also indicated that the aviation of the defense forces carried out six attacks against areas of concentration of personnel and military equipment of the occupants during the day.
Meanwhile, the missile and artillery troop units reached four personnel concentration areas, an ammunition depot and two deployment points of the electronic warfare equipment stations of the Russian forces.
Besides, Russian forces launched 12 airstrikes and five missile strikes, two of them against the city of Zaporizhzhiawhich did not leave dead or injured.
They used the S-300 missile system against a civilian infrastructure facility resulting in a destroyed building.
In addition, Russian troops launched 56 attacks from MLRS multiple launch rocket systems, one of them against a civilian infrastructure facility in the city of Kherson, resulting in two deaths and three injuries.
“In the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions, the enemy continues to defend itself. At the same time, it carried out an intense bombardment of towns”, adds the report, which speaks of 40 affected population centers.
(With information from EFE)
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Source-www.infobae.com