The Russians are trying to bypass the city in a circle.
Ukrainian military and Ivanovsky to go around the city in a circle. The defense forces are repelling enemy attacks.
The speaker of the operational-strategic group of troops “Khortitsa” Nazar Voloshin stated this during a telethon.
“There is no Russian army in the Temporary Yar. There were attempts by the enemy bypass the city near the villages of Ivanovskoye and Bogdanovka. The enemy wants to take the city in a vise and go around it in a circle,” Voloshin commented. The Russian army is launching mortar and artillery strikes on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
“Over the past 24 hours, 170 enemy mortar and artillery attacks were recorded in this direction… The enemy is not abandoning attempts to attack,” the speaker adds.
>- Previously it was reported that the Russian army was trying to outflank Vremya Yar through other settlements and began to attack Andreevka and Klishchievka, west of Bakhmut, more strongly.
- Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel-General Alexander Syrsky said that the top Russian military leadership set the task for its troops to capture Vremya Yar before May 9.
- To capture Vremya Yar in the Donetsk region, the Russian army began to use the tactics that were used during the offensive in Avdeevka. The enemy drops air bombs on the city.