Fighting around Bakhmut continues continuously.

The Russian occupiers are trying to cut the supply routes there, so they attack around the clock, use "Grady", tanks, artillery, mines in their attempts to break through.  

Yuriy Syrotyuk, a soldier-grenadier of the 5th separate assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, told about this in an interview with TSN.ua.

"The situation here is "fun" and tense since the beginning of the war. Since the summer of last year, Bakhmut has been under direct attack by the Russian occupiers. When they failed to launch a frontal attack on Bakhmut, the enemy changed tactics and began to try to capture Bakhmut from the flanks. Unfortunately, the enemy destroyed the city Soledar. He

is trying to enter the route in the north of Sloviansk-Bakhmut to cut off the supply route

. And at the same time he is trying to enter the Kostyantynivka-Bakhmut route to also cut the supply route. That is why the enemy is attacking all night, day and morning, uses "Grad" rocket salvo systems, uses tanks, artillery, mines, breaking through," the Ukrainian defender described the situation around Bakhmut.

At the same time, the Armed Forces prevent the enemy from encircling the city, while inflicting heavy losses.

"We are currently working on the flanks,

trying to prevent the enemy from cutting off and encircling the city. The fighting continues continuously. The

enemy is trying to advance. This is costing him a huge number of victims. That is, the enemy does not spare, does not spare, does not value his people at all. The enemy tries by any means advance at a price, bears huge losses, but obviously has some task to achieve some tactical successes by some date," Syrotyuk said.

He noted that the Russian invaders have become even more active in the last week and are trying to break through the Ukrainian defenses.

"It was always "hot" here, it was never quiet here, but now from January 7, the attacks began to be active. And the

last week is such a simple rush,

when the enemy is wave after wave, artillery is working, enemy MLRS are working, enemy tanks are moving out, trying to attack our observation posts, break through the defenses and

surround Bakhmut from the south and the north

," said the soldier of the Armed Forces.

"Well, at the moment we are holding the front. Unfortunately, this intensity of fighting leads to the fact that losses are increasing. But

the losses on the Ukrainian side are not commensurate with the Russian

losses. The enemy is simply trying to break through with manpower and a barrage of fire," the soldier added.

He also informed that in the battles around Bakhmut, the number of "Wagnerians" decreased and the personnel of the Russian military increased.

The amount of enemy artillery and dense tank fire also increased.

"Unfortunately, there are contusions and wounded, because the enemy works very closely with rocket systems of volley fire, simply "combing" all the landings, any places where you can take cover. But

the enemy has not achieved and will not achieve any strategic goals

in this direction, because the Bakhmut fortress plays one role for Ukraine - to weaken and bleed the enemy, to prevent him from carrying out active, strategic and intelligent offensives on other areas of the front," Syrotyuk explained.

He also expressed his belief that the stubborn resistance of the Ukrainian defenders on this part of the front will allow fighters in other parts to prepare and inflict a strategic defeat on the enemy. 

We will remind you that earlier the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that the military should stay in Bakhmut until the state receives the necessary weapons.

Besides, if the city is captured, the occupiers will want to move on.

The day before, a military analyst, Colonel Petro Chernyk, reported that very heavy, very serious battles are taking place in the Bakhmut direction, but it is inappropriate to talk about the operational environment at the moment. 

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