A pro-Russian official in Lugansk revealed that the Ukrainian army is sending commando units to relieve the Bakhmut area.
In an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda radio channel on March 27, Andrey Marochko, a pro-Russian official in the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), said fierce fighting was taking place in the city. Bakhmut street in eastern Ukraine. According to sources from Russian military officials, pro-Moscow forces have gained control of 70% of the city.
Marochko said that despite the great damage in recent times, the Ukrainian army has not given up its intention to relieve the siege of the Bakhmut fortress.
“Ukrainian army commando units are being dispatched to Bakhmut to fight as infantrymen. This means that the situation has become very critical for the Ukrainian defense forces as elite units. their best has been brought in,” said Marochko.
On the same day, Marochko revealed that the Russian military had eliminated a Ukrainian military convoy that was on its way to reinforce the defense forces in the city of Seversk in Donetsk.
“A military convoy transporting Ukrainian reinforcements was destroyed in the settlement of Rai – Aleksandrovka while on the way to Seversk. Ukrainian military commanders sent this convoy carrying soldiers and equipment. military reinforcements to the defensive positions in Seversk,” the pro-Russian official in Lugansk said.
Earlier, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense, confirmed that the combined forces of the Russian army had removed 70 soldiers from the combat ring and an ammunition depot of the Russian Consular Defense Brigade. 127 territory of the Ukrainian army in the Kupyansk and Kharkiv regions.
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry has not yet commented on the information.
Recently, fighting is still taking place extremely intensely in the Bakhmut area where both Russia and Ukraine are trying to gain control of this strategic city.
According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a Washington DC-based research organization, to increase the firepower of the Bakhmut strike force, Russia has begun using Kh- 555 and S-300 air defense missiles were converted at this front.
The ISW believes that these missiles will be used to attack Ukrainian troop concentration points around Bakhmut. This will make Kyiv’s counter-attack plan to break the siege for this Eastern pan of fire more difficult.
