Ukrainian Defense Forces doing their utmost to stop Russian army advance - National Guard captain

He said this on the Espreso TV channel.

‘My fellow servicemen from the 4th Rubizh Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine are performing tasks in the east of the country, north of Chasiv Yar, in the direction of Siversk and in the direction of Lyman. The situation is extremely difficult. In hellish conditions, the Ukrainian Defense Forces are doing everything possible to prevent the enemy from advancing,’ Nazarenko said.

According to the chief of artillery intelligence of the 4th Rubizh Brigade, the Russian army is using a huge amount of resources, but the Ukrainian Defense Forces are making heroic efforts to hold the line and grind down the enemy's potential.

‘Every day, the enemy loses dozens of manpower only in specific areas controlled by one or another brigade of the Defense Forces. In general, these are thousands of daily losses for the enemy. But the losses do not stop Russian so far. That is, the Russian occupation society does not feel any losses. Accordingly, we have to destroy the enemy even more to make the daily losses for the Russians so irreversible that the Russians cannot conduct rotations to replenish their troops,’ Nazarenko stressed.

• Over the past 24 hours, the Russian occupation army lost 1,200 servicemen in the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian forces destroyed 21 unmanned aerial vehicles and 27 artillery systems.
• Oleksiy Hetman, a reserve major of the National Guard of Ukraine and a veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war, noted that the battle for Pokrovsk could last for months.