To the east of Bakhmut, the enemy attempted a massive assault on the Ukrainian defense line.

Fierce infantry confrontations took place from the highway to Debaltseve and further to the East - near Pidgorodny, Bakhmutsky, on the outskirts of Soledar and around Yakovlivka, TSN reports.

Thanks to the titanic efforts of our infantry soldiers and artillerymen, the front line remained unchanged almost everywhere, and the remnants of the occupiers' assault groups were forced to retreat.

Enemy airplanes with helicopters fly here regularly, and after them, new deep craters from aerial bombs and rockets appear on the streets and playgrounds of front-line Donetsk region.

In the settlements located close to the front line, enemy mines with shells crushed every single house, and debris broke the roofs, windows and fences almost every hour.

"They are just chasing us all day long," say the military.

Each time, artillery volleys of the occupiers start sounding at dawn and do not stop all day.

So now, one sentence can be described - every day is "at zero", north-east of Bakhmut.

"Since the very morning, the enemy has been trying to push the positions with artillery, both with mortars and with barrels. He is trying to simply demolish the position with artillery and calmly enter it," - a serviceman of the 24th OMBr named after

King Danylo Vladyslav.

But the fighters restraining the enemy, if the Ukrainian jet fire is not enough to find the enemy gunners, or more subtle work is needed at close distances, they involve "snipers" of the artillery staff.

This is one of those areas of the front line in Donetsk region, where the enemy conducts assaults almost every day.

Usually this happens during the day, but for the past few days the invaders have been advancing in small groups of infantry precisely at dark.

It happens, says "Bass", that several enemy assaults have to be repelled in one night.

"Sometimes they try 3-4 times. But we adjust with arta, repel," he says.

But such sorties do not bring much profit to the enemies, Ukrainian soldiers assure.

Lately, say our infantrymen from the 24th Royal Brigade, the assault groups of the occupiers are more like a bunch of untrained suicide bombers, who are not at all spared by the command.

"If they used to have more trained personnel, now they have a lot of mobilized, convicts, they throw them "for meat", - adds Vladyslav.

And they are very active with shovels.

Enemy "chmobikes", apparently not of their own free will, are digging right in front of the machine gun positions of the Ukrainian defenders.

A sufficient amount of ammunition, says "Bas", is one of the guarantees that the line of responsibility will be held.

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