Ukrainian defenders hit enemy positions near Bakhmut, Donetsk region. It is reported by the Command of the Airborne Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“At the guidance of UAV operators of the 71st separate Jaeger brigade of the Air Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, our artillery covered enemy fortifications near Bakhmut. So it’s for sure that there are almost no occupiers left there,” the message reads..

In particular, the drones hovered over the positions of the invaders and corrected the fire, recording the progress of the attack in real time..

“They recorded the losses of the invaders - at least a dozen. The devastating fire cleared their positions so much that the rangers of the DShV just had to go there. This is what they did later,” the military wrote..

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Earlier, British intelligence predicted whether the Russian Federation would be able to achieve a breakthrough near Bakhmut in the coming weeks..

Kirill Budanov, the head of the GUR MO, said that the Wagnerites want to capture the city of Bakhmut so much because 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 can improve enemy positions and open the way for the Russian Federation to other cities of Donbass, this operation is not strategically important..