Military expert Oleg Zhdanov explained why the Ukrainian command does not pull all reserves to Bakhmut, if the Defense Forces of Ukraine are about 1.2 million people.

He told about this on his YouTube channel.

The expert emphasized that Ukraine has almost 3,500 km of border that needs to be protected.

"1.2 million are the Defense Forces, not the Armed Forces. This includes Teroborona, the National Guard, border guards, the National Police, etc. The armed forces are much smaller. We need to maintain defense along our entire border with Belarus and Russia. We also need to maintain garrisons on the coast of the Black Sea of the sea. You can't do without it either - and suddenly there will be an enemy landing," he noted.

Zhdanov explained that the command cannot withdraw troops, for example, from the Sumy or Chernihiv regions.

"After all, sabotage and reconnaissance groups will go there. They will see that our troops are not there, battalion-tactical groups of the Russian Federation will go - there will be a new invasion," the expert emphasized.

He assured that the necessary reserves come to Bakhmut from time to time - "perhaps not in such a quantity as we would like, but they are there."

The situation in Bakhmut: the latest news

We will remind that on December 20, President Volodymyr Zelensky unexpectedly visited Bakhmut and awarded the defenders of Ukraine.

The occupiers have been trying to seize this city since May.

It remains one of the hottest spots on the entire front line.

Today, the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kyrylo Budanov also visited the advanced positions of Ukrainian defenders in Bakhmut.

He visited less than a kilometer from the contact line.

It became known that in Bakhmut the Russians are using prisoners of war to get closer to Ukrainian positions.

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  • The Russians were given a new deadline to capture Bakhmut

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