A new breakthrough 2 km wide: the Armed Forces created a bridgehead to continue the offensive under Bakhmut

In the 3rd OSHBR reported that the losses of the occupiers were fifty killed and up to hundreds of wounded, and several of them were captured by Ukrainian defenders. On the western outskirts of Bakhmut, the 3rd assault brigade of the Armed Forces, together with 1st Mehbat, carried out offensive actions and created a bridgehead for further counter-offensive. This was reported in the Telegram-channel of the brigade. "The width of the breakthrough strip was 2000 m, and the depth is 700 m.

Previously, the enemy at least 50" 200's "and up to hundreds of" 300s. " direction, including several Russian BC warehouses, "the message reads. It is noted that the breakthrough of the invaders' defense was made by the fighters of the 3rd assault brigade together with fighters of the 1st mechanized battalion. Ukrainian defenders promised to tell more details later.

We will remind that on May 18, the head of PEC "Wagner" Yevhen Prigogin stated that the units of the Ministry of Defense of Russia went 570 meters north of Bakhmut, exposing the flanks. On May 17, the Defense and Security forces of Ukraine advanced in the Bakhmut direction at a distance of 150 to 1700 meters, said Sergey Cherevaty, a spokesman for the eastern group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the battles, Ukrainian soldiers destroyed 136 invaders, and another 145 were injured.