Ukraine's State Border Guard Service reported this.
“The fortress city of Bakhmut together with the State Border Guard Service fighters is withstanding enemy attacks. One attack was repelled by our mortar launchers using aerial reconnaissance coordinates. Grenade launchers and small arms helped to deal with another group of Wagner mercenaries in close combat,” the statement said.
The border guards noted that the assaults resulted in the defeat of the occupation Russian forces, and 14 soldiers were neutralized: six were killed and eight were wounded.
On March 12, a border guard unit of the Luhansk detachment liquidated a group of Wagner soldiers in the industrial zone of Bakhmut.
The Russian Wagner PMC has set up a base in the cellars of the Artemivsk champagne factory in Bakhmut, Donetsk region. The militants have set up a military city on the territory.