Kiev (EFE).- The Ukrainian General Staff explained in its part today that Russian forces continue to launch attacks to “completely” take over the city of Bakhmut, where Ukrainian troops repelled at least 20 assault attempts on Wednesday .
“The enemy continues to focus its main efforts on its offensive in the directions of Limán, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Marinska”, the official note says in reference to these four areas of the eastern front, which adds that “the epicenter of the combat continues to be in Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Marinka”.
In the four aforementioned areas, Ukrainian forces repelled dozens of Russian attacks yesterday, says the report, which also speaks of enemy bombardments against numerous towns near these cities.
The Ukrainian military report also says that the Russian army “is increasing the fortification of its defensive borders and its positions” in the territories it controls in Zaporizhia and Kherson in southern Ukraine, presumably in anticipation of a possible Ukrainian counteroffensive.
For his part, the spokesman for the Ukrainian Border Guard said Wednesday that Russia has taken measures to transfer half of the 4,000 soldiers it had in Belarus to eastern Ukraine, with the aim of “reinforcing its troops” who are fighting in the forehead.
The transfer comes after the 2,000 soldiers who will be sent to the front completed their training on Belarusian soil, said Andrii Demechenko, the spokesman for the Ukrainian Border Guard.
The Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenski, described the situation in which his country’s Army troops find themselves in Bakhmut as “very difficult” when commenting on the siege suffered by that city in Warsaw, where he arrived on Wednesday on an official visit.
