Russia has brought in more than 40,000 troops to the Avdiyiv direction.

"The occupiers are suffering heavy losses there, but despite this, the reserves - Storm-Z and newly mobilized - are being brought up very quickly", Oleksandr Shtupun, the spokesman of the Defense Forces of the Tavria Region, said on the air of the telethon.

"The attitude of the command towards them is just like animals. It is recorded that they are sometimes even left without food and water, and they are forced to eat just snow. Lots of frostbite at the moment. But for some reason they are moving forward - they fear their leadership more than death ," Shtupun said.