kyiv, 10 apr. Ukrainian military spokesman Oleksii Dmytrashkivskyi assured last night on the Ukrainian national television news service that Russia loses about two companies in its attempts to take the city of Avdiivka, on the eastern Ukrainian front.
“They are suffering colossal casualties; every day, the enemy loses about two companies, but does not give up on its efforts,” said the spokesman, who also explained that “the positional battles in the Marinka and Avdiivka area continue” without major changes.
Russian forces, he added, sometimes achieve results, “but all our positions that the enemy takes are recaptured and retaken” by the Ukrainian army.
Dmytrashkivskyi said, citing Russian prisoners of war captured by the Ukrainians, that Russian army commanders send soldiers into battle “without any preparation.” “They just wake up the personnel in the middle of the night, under machine gun fire, and send them to attack positions,” he stressed.
In its daily part this Monday, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces explained that the Russian forces continue to concentrate their efforts in the areas of Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Marinka, all of them on the eastern front.
In these four areas, the Ukrainians repelled 58 attacks in the last 24 hours, according to the report. EFE
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