Since the beginning of February, in the battles against Ukraine, Russia has used about 1,200 people from the Russian private military company Wagner, recruited in prisons from the temporarily occupied territories of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. It is reported by the General Staff.
In addition, in Mariupol, the Russians are repairing military equipment that was deliberately disabled by the Russian military so as not to participate in hostilities..
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According to the General Staff, the Russians are conducting offensive operations in five directions in the Donetsk region.
According to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, the Ukrainian military managed to recapture previously lost positions from the Russian invaders in certain sectors of the front in the Donetsk region and gain a foothold there.. Occupiers carry out about 50 attacks per day in Donetsk region.