Over the past day, Russian invaders fired 249 times from various artillery weapons on the Bakhmut direction. This was announced by the press secretary of the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sergey Cherevaty.

He said that in the summer the occupiers shelled Ukrainian positions almost unlimitedly with shells of 122 and 152 caliber.. However, now the Russian assassins have focused their shelling on specific areas:.

Bakhmut;

Avdeevskiy;

Limanskiy.

In addition, the Russian occupiers are shelling settlements that are of interest to them for the offensive..

“They cannot allow themselves constant fire damage. They already need to supply ammunition from a greater distance. Looking for ammunition already in different countries to buy. Because the incredible intensity of the war can only be compared with the Second World War,” Cherevaty said on the air of the telethon..

He also said that our defenders are working to destroy enemy artillery depots and artillery installations directly.. According to the speaker of the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the invaders were ordered to unload artillery shells no closer than 100 kilometers from the front line..

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Earlier, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported that Russian troops had not captured all of Soledar, despite erroneous claims that Ukrainian forces had surrendered the city and Bakhmut was in danger of imminent encirclement..

At the same time, the New York Times noted that in Bakhmut, the Ukrainian army changed its strategy.. Usually Ukrainian troops avoided tedious urban combat, but now everything has changed, and experts explain why the new approach of the Ukrainian defenders makes sense..