Such a statement was made by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhnyi during a conversation with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley.

And already in the evening TSN received a video from one of the areas of the front where these positions are located.

It is under Bakhmut.

There, only five border guards of the Luhansk border detachment did an amazing thing.

Having learned from intelligence that a large group of "Wagnerians" was entering the position, the group commander decided to attack the enemy.

During the battle, these five fighters killed 20 Russian mercenaries, another two dozen Russians will go to the hospital.

And three more "Wagners" are now in Ukrainian captivity.

Let's add that earlier

border guards shot down a Russian attack aircraft that was bombing Bakhmut

.

It is about the Su-25 attack aircraft. 

It will be recalled that

border guards destroyed four groups of Russian attack aircraft near Bakhmut. 

Bakhmut remains the main target of attack by the Russian occupiers in eastern Ukraine.

During the

day of February 10, a record 54 combat clashes took place here

.

However, the enemy has still not managed to cut the supply routes for the Ukrainian defenders.

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