“Attack groups of the 71st separate fighter brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine together with other units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine occupied enemy positions near Bakhmut,” the report reads.

As the military said, at first the occupiers’ fortifications were illuminated several times by artillery and mortar fire. Then the paratroopers carefully entered the enemy positions.

“They ended the final resistance of the Russian occupiers. In general, about a dozen invaders were destroyed,” added the DSHV of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.