Video emerged showing a Ukrainian soldier whose flak vest stopped a 30mm autocannon round, demonstrating individual protective equipment effectiveness.

Video emerged showing a Ukrainian soldier whose flak vest stopped a 30mm autocannon round, demonstrating individual protective equipment effectiveness.

In March 2023 it became known about the death of former Estonian Defense Forces officer Ivo Jurak, who was killed in action near Bakhmut in the Donetsk region.

As of the beginning of March, Western intelligence estimated Russia's losses in the fights for the city of Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast to be 20,000-30,000 of recruits of the Wagner Group PMC in the last few months. Killed soldiers are estimated to be about a third of this quantity.

Mykhailo went missing in March 2023 and Serhiy has been searching for him everywhere. In his last conversation, Mykhailo said everything was good and he planned to go home in a week to get married.

Russian troops are losing seven times more soldiers than Ukrainian forces in Bakhmut, with hundreds killed daily

Ivo Jürg was a former officer of the Estonian Defense Forces who fought for Ukraine from the first year of the full-scale war and died near Bakhmut.

Only two wounded are known from regiment 1439; others died or are in difficult situations.