The invaders in the Donetsk direction suffered significant losses and lack ammunition, said the head of the joint press center of the defense forces of the Tauride direction, Colonel Aleksey Dmitrashkovsky. Therefore, as Dmitrashkovsky noted, the Russian invaders loosened their grip on the indicated direction..

" Compared to last week, (on the Avdiivka-Maryinka direction), the enemy significantly reduced the number of assault actions, the number of shelling. If it was measured in hundreds per day (assault attempts) and about 600 shelling, then today it is somewhat less. During the day - up to 30 assault actions (at night from 2 to 9), and shelling per day reaches 200-250 (per night - 100-120),” Dmitrashkovsky said on the air of the telethon.

Speaking about the reasons for this behavior of the invaders, he said that the Russians had recently suffered significant losses and were experiencing " According to Dmitrashkovsky, the invaders need time to restore their strength.

“There is a lot of talk about the lack of ammunition, “artillery hunger”, (the occupiers) have a limit set today that they cannot exceed. If they exceed, they are out of ammo the next day.. And this is not only the problem of Prigozhin, who says that he is not given ammunition, this is a common problem in the Russian army.. The enemy, in my opinion, is already somewhat exhausted and does not have the power that it had before,” Dmitrashkovsky added..

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