Horrible! Ukrainian close combat kills hundreds of Russian soldiers in fierce battle near Bakhmut

Over the past day, the Russian military carried out 42 air strikes and 101 strikes from salvo rocket systems, in addition, 15 missile strikes by Russian troops were carried out on Bakhmut, Kherson and Odesa, said the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroys a Russian BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicle.

The BMP-3 is a fairly formidable vehicle, armed with twin 100 and 30 mm guns and three machine guns. But when his own ammunition exploded, he was blown to smithereens.

Another video shows The Ukrainian Armed Forces said its tanker destroyed another ammunition depot of the private military company Wagner near Bakhmut.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, on Thursday accused regular units of the Russian army of retreating 570 meters north of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, leaving behind its own fighting wing.

Wagner's forces had spearheaded the offensive on Bakhmut, one of the bloodiest and longest battles of the war, in what Moscow called a "special military operation", with some support from the regular army in recent months.

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported on May 18 that Russia had lost 201,100 troops in Ukraine since the start of its full-scale invasion on February 24 last year.
This number includes the 510 casualties suffered by Russian forces over the past few days.

Over the past few days, Ukraine has carried out 20 sorties in areas where military personnel and equipment were concentrated, eight of them on enemy anti-aircraft missile systems, and two Orlan-10 reconnaissance UAVs were also destroyed.

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