This was announced to the deputies in the Bundestag by the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) of Germany at a secret meeting this week, writes The mirror January 20th.
So, according to German intelligence, the Ukrainian army daily loses a three-digit number of soldiers in battles with Russian invaders near Bakhmut.
The possible fall of the city, according to the analysis, would have consequences for the entire line of Ukrainian defense, the publication points out.
It is noted that Russia is throwing soldiers like cannon fodder, because “losses there do not play any role for her”.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine this winter regularly reports that opponent concentrated efforts on the offensive in the Limansky, Bakhmutsky and Avdeevsky directions in the Donetsk region and suffers significant losses..
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny said on January 3 that the situation remains difficult on the Soledar-Bakhmut-Mayorsk sectionenemy “actually over their corpses“trying to move forward.
To the area of Bakhmut and Soledar deploy additional units of the defense forcessaid President Volodymyr Zelensky on January 8.
On the morning of January 15, the General Staff reported on the repulsed attacks of the invaders near Soledar. In the evening, the Ministry of Defense stated that fighting was going on in the Soledar area, and information about the general picture of the front is a state secret.
“The battle for Soledar, Bakhmut, the entire Donetsk and Luhansk regions continues without a break“, Zelensky said in an evening address on January 15.
