The Russians have not been able to capture the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region for 9 months, said the speaker of the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sergey Cherevaty, Report informs.
He said that this is a manifestation of the failure of General Valery Gerasimov, commander of Russian forces in Ukraine:
"Russian troops in the East cannot achieve a single strategic goal. They get bogged down in several directions and exhaust their strength."
According to Cherevaty, the other side's information about the seizure of territories is not true.