Ukrainian army hasn’t lost single position in Bakhmut this week, inflicted heavy losses on Russia – Maliar

She reported the information on her Telegram channel.

"During the week, Bakhmut and events related to it remained the leading topic in Russian Telegram channels and media. An analysis of the messages shows that this city is of utmost importance to the enemy. It is almost sacred," she said in the post.

Malyar also said that Russians talk about "success" and invent a story about the Ukrainian military command when covering information about the fighting in Bakhmut.

"At the same time, the enemy gives false information about the lack of weapons, which probably aims to justify the real situation," the Defense Ministry spokeswoman said.

In reality, despite the having weapons, the situation was as follows:

• Russia failed to realize its plans

• Russia suffered losses in manpower

• Ukrainian defenders advanced 2 km in the Bakhmut direction

• Ukraine did not lose a single position in Bakhmut this week

To recap, the head of Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is the one who complains about the lack of ammunition the most in Russia, and according to experts, he is trying to justify his failure to capture Bakhmut. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense believes that "Any military information during the war is a weapon. It is used to fight, not to inform. So, the enemy is simply misleading us for its military purposes."

• On May 10, Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, confirmed the information previously reported by military commanders that the Ukrainian Defense Forces forced Russian troops to retreat to a distance of up to 2 kilometers in the Bakhmut direction.

• Yaroslav Lysenko, a fighter with the 3rd Battalion of the Svoboda Operational Task Force of the National Guard of Ukraine, said that important events would take place on the battlefield in late May. In addition, he suggested that a major offensive could begin from the Bakhmut direction.

• As of the morning of May 12, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces emphasized that Russia continues to attack in the Bakhmut direction, and fighting continues in the town of Bakhmut. Over the past day, Russia launched unsuccessful offensives in the direction of Stupochky. It launched air strikes near Bakhmut and 3 more settlements. Thirteen settlements in the Donetsk region suffered from Russian shelling.

• And US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Ukraine has the resources to return the territories seized by Russia during the full-scale war.

• After that, the Secretary of Ukraine’s Security and Defense Council, Oleksii Danilov, said that the final plans for the Ukrainian Armed Forces' counteroffensive had not yet been approved.

• And Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called for not considering the Ukrainian Armed Forces' counteroffensive, which is being widely discussed, to be the last one.