Bakhmut should have been surrendered three weeks ago – General Kryvonos

He expressed this opinion on Espreso TV.

"From my point of view, Bakhmut should have been surrendered three weeks ago, because we are also losing our strength. Fighting is already taking place on the outskirts of the city. Will there be any benefit in sending the Special Operations Forces there now? I understand that the situation is similar to what happened in Severodonetsk and Lysychansk. We are starting to hammer nails with a microscope. It is better to save the Special Operations Forces for future offensive operations, and it will be much more useful," noted the Ukrainian Armed Forces General.

Serhiy Kryvonos noted that in this situation we need to draw the right conclusions and improve the training of our infantry.

"Bakhmut should have been abandoned and we should have withdrawn to the prepared lines outside the city. Given the terrain that I know well from the previous years of the war, it was possible to set up an excellent defense line there and keep the enemy at bay to prevent their further offensive outside Bakhmut," said Kryvonos.

• On March 10, border guards repelled two Russian assaults in the Bakhmut sector.

• Also, the spokesman for the eastern grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Serhiy Cherevaty, said that almost 200 Russian soldiers had been killed near Bakhmut over the past day.