Around 

 in the Donetsk region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine deter up to 20 attacks by Russian troops every day.

It is in the direction of Bakhmut that Russia is concentrating its main efforts because it is trying to capture the city. 

Oleksiy Gromov, head of the Main Operational Department of the General Staff, announced this during the briefing.

"Every day, around Bakhmut, Ukrainian forces repel up to 20 enemy attacks, which, under the cover of artillery fire, persistently attack the positions of our troops," he emphasized.

According to him, the occupiers concentrated artillery fire in that direction.

They reduced the number of shelling of Ukrainian positions in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia directions.

"More than 40% of the enemy's artillery fire along the contact line from Kupyansk to Maryanka falls on the Bakhmut direction. The enemy is trying at any cost, despite numerous losses in personnel, to capture Bakhmut," noted Oleksiy Gromov.

The situation near Bakhmut 

Analysts of the American Institute for the Study of War say that the

and begin to expire.

The occupiers operate in assault groups the size of one unit due to heavy losses.

Military expert Oleg Zhdanov says that the

, because it is necessary to maintain defense along our entire border with Belarus and Russia.

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

The other day, the intelligence of the British Ministry of Defense stated that the

and near Svatovo.

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