The speaker of the Eastern Group of Forces, Sergei Cherevaty, said that the Russians are still trying to break through the defense of the defenders in the Bakhmut area, and intense fighting continues in the Avdiivka and Vugledar areas.

" During these days, he inflicted about 225 strikes of various types of artillery, tanks, multiple rocket launchers. There were more than 28 collisions, - said Cherevaty during the telethon. - The enemy lost more than 90 people killed and more than 100 wounded only in the battles in the Bakhmut direction"

The efforts of the occupiers in this sector of the front are futile, the speaker of the OK " He noted that the enemy forces there continue to suffer losses..

As for the districts of Avdiivka and Vuhledar, heavy fighting continues there.. This direction is the second most intensive in Donbass.

" But systemically it has losses and is not able to do it,"

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Recall that the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, Kirill Budanov, said that the Wagnerites so badly want to capture the city of Bakhmut due to the fact that the owner of their PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin and the commander of Russian troops in Ukraine Sergey Surovikin entered into an alliance. Now these two want to prove their strength. But Budanov noted that although the occupation of the city could improve enemy positions and open the way for the Russian Federation to other cities of Donbass, this operation is not strategically important..