Bakhmut's fate will be decided by 90% in fight for southern road – Yevhen Dykyi

He expressed his opinion on Espreso TV. 

“Bakhmut depends on two roads, the northern and southern ones. The northern route has been completely blocked by the enemy, which is a fait accompli. As for the southern road, the enemy has come close to it, and it has been under enemy fire for several weeks,” the former platoon commander of the Aidar Battalion noted. 

Yevhen Dykyi explained that the southern road is not completely blocked by the enemy, but the passage there is already risky and one has to slip between enemy shelling.

“There is another backup road, which is smaller than the highway, and it is out of the enemy's reach. Accordingly, the fate of Bakhmut will be decided, not so much in Bakhmut itself, but 90% in the area of our Chasiv Yar and occupied Klishchiivka, and it is between them that the struggle for this southern road is unfolding. If the enemy manages to break through to Chasiv Yar, then there will be no point in holding Bakhmut from that moment on, because with such poor logistics, there will be a high risk that at some point the ammunition will run out and the garrison will be surrounded. And if we manage to hold one of the two roads, for example, the southern one, for a long time, then we can hold Chasiv Yar and this road for as long as we hold Bakhmut,” Dykyi noted. 

• On February 23, former Azov regiment commander, Major Maksym Zhorin noted that the Russian enemy was unable to cut off Bakhmut's logistics.

• On February 24, the Ukrainian Armed Forces' General Staff reported that the Russian troops conducted several unsuccessful offensives in the Bakhmut direction.