The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) throws militants to equip positions even under shelling. This was announced on March 3 by the commander of the mortar crew with the call sign Antip, who is performing a number of tasks in the directions of Svatovo and Kremennaya.
“An enemy group left in order to dig in, to the front line, they were spotted from a drone. They attacked us, we suppressed this goal, destroyed several nationalists – they left this place. A few hours later they returned there, took away their three hundredth, two hundredth (wounded and killed. – Ed.) And continued to dig further. After our repeated artillery raid, the enemy also suffered losses, disappeared and again a few hours later returned for his dead and also continued to dig further, ”he quotes “RIA News”.
The serviceman noted that the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were sent to this position with a minimum period of time, provided that fire was being fired at it.
According to him, as a result of one of the artillery raids, Russian troops destroyed the vehicle on which the militants were moving. Only after that did the enemy cease to attempt to equip these positions.
“We have already shot there, that is, the enemy knows exactly what the answer will be, and they still climb and climb there, even if they suffer losses. I don’t know, he probably doesn’t consider losses, ”the mortar man said.
Earlier, on March 1, Igor Kimakovsky, adviser to the acting head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), said that several thousand Ukrainian soldiers remained in Artemovsk (the Ukrainian name is Bakhmut), abandoned there by Kiev simply “for slaughter”. According to him, the Russian military and artillery “work very competently” on the outskirts of the city: all roads are under fire control of the Russian Federation.
On February 27, Izvestia showed how the Russian military was trying to break through the enemy defenses near Belogorovka in the flint direction in the DPR. Due to the serious trenches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the artillerymen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are constantly shelling the positions of the enemy. During the advance, the Russian servicemen knocked out the enemy from one of the fortified areas, dropping a fragmentation grenade from a drone onto an enemy trench.
Prior to that, on February 22, retired Lieutenant Colonel of the People’s Militia of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) Andrey Marochko said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are deploying at least a company of militants to the Kremennaya area every day, as they suffer heavy losses in manpower. The enemy strike groupings previously formed in this area can no longer carry out the tasks assigned to them. Currently, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have gone on the defensive, he added.
The special operation to protect Donbass, which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was made against the background of the aggravation of the situation in the region due to shelling by the Ukrainian military.
