The General Staff of the AFU said in a summary at the beginning of the 38th day of the war that Russian troops are suffering significant losses in the Luhansk region, and the enemy is pulling down units on the territory of Transnistria.
This is reported by the General Staff of the AFU on its Facebook page.
Thus, noted the military, the enemy withdraws troops in certain directions, probably in order to strengthen the grouping of forces for further offensive actions in Slobozhansky, Donetsk and Luhansk directions.
It is noted that the enemy has intensified its work with "volunteers". Thus, on April 1, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the holding of military meetings with reservists from April 4 to May 23, 2022.
"At the same time, work has been intensified to involve units of Russian troops based in the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova to carry out provocations and demonstrations on the border with Ukraine. The redeployment of Russian troops and units of the so-called Transnistrian-Moldovan "republic" with the purpose of preparing for a demonstration of readiness for an offensive and, possibly, combat actions against Ukraine has been noted," the report reads.
In the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, the enemy abducts local residents, shells residential areas of settlements, mines civilian infrastructure, and engages in looting and looting.
The enemy has significant losses in the Luhansk region. In Alchevsk, about 30 wounded occupants were admitted to the local hospital from the area of hostilities near Popasna. According to the available information of the AFU General Staff, the enemy leaves its dead on the battlefield. At the same time, over the past week, irrecoverable losses of personnel in the units of the so-called 2nd Army Corps of the occupants amounted to about 800 people.
A group of AFU troops in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions repulsed 9 enemy attacks during the day. Ukrainian military destroyed 8 Russian tanks, 44 armored fighting vehicles, 16 vehicles and 10 artillery systems.
Earlier, President Vladimir Zelensky warned Russian conscripts that if they are sent to war in Ukraine - they will not return home.
