“The heavy losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction led to an acute shortage of beds, medicines and blood supplies in the medical institutions of the city of Nikolaev and the Nikolaev region,” the statement says.
It is specified that also in the city to identify and detain the increased number of deserters, the number of military patrols has been increased and additional posts have been set up at the entrances to the city.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Ukrainian troops carried out new unsuccessful attempts at offensive operations in the Nikolaev-Kryvyi Rih direction.
Prior to this, the Ministry of Defense reported that Russian troops destroyed more than 1.7 thousand Ukrainian soldiers in two days of unsuccessful attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog and other directions.