Lt. Dmytro “DaVinci” Kotsyubailo, killed in a battle near Bakhmut, was given his final honors.
Sun 12 March 2023:
Serhiy Cherevatyi, a Ukrainian military spokesperson, has said that 221 pro-Moscow troops were killed in the clashes in the contested city of Bakhmut. The official added that more than 300 troops were injured in the fighting in the city.
Russia says about 210 Ukrainian soldiers killed in Donetsk region
Russia’s defence ministry says that up to 210 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the Donetsk region, where clashes have been ongoing.
Moscow did not specify the casualties in Bakhmut, the eastern Donetsk town, now nearly deserted.
Ukraine readies for counteroffensive in Bakhmut: Commander
A top Ukrainian commander has said his forces’ ongoing defence of Bakhmut in the face of fierce and sustained Russian attacks was necessary to “buy time” for a planned counteroffensive.
“The real heroes now are the defenders who are holding the eastern front on their shoulders, and inflicting the heaviest possible losses, sparing neither themselves nor the enemy,” the commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, Oleksandr Syrsky, said.
Ukraine Deputy PM stresses human cost of Russian attack on Makhmut
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishyna has said that the high human cost of Russia’s assault on Bakhmut.
“Thousands of Russian soldiers died at a considerable rate in this battle,” she said in an interview with the French newspaper Journal du Dimanche.
“The human mass of its infantry is a formidable weapon, it seems inexhaustible in volume and in time.”
However, even if it did capture the “small town”, she added, “it will not impact the strategic corridors we still control in the region”.
Ukraine FM Kuleba urges Germany to send more ammunition, train up pilots
Ukraine’s foreign minister has urged Germany to speed up supplies of ammunition and to start training Ukrainian pilots on Western fighter jets.
Dmytro Kuleba told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper in an interview that ammunition shortages were the “number one” problem in Ukraine’s fight against Russia.
He said German weapons manufacturers had told him at the Munich Security Conference last month they were ready to deliver but were waiting for the government to sign contracts.
“So the problem lies with the government,” Kuleba was quoted as saying.
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