DONETSK, March 28. /TASS/. Ukraine’s armed forces have been redeploying personnel to the Avdeyevka area in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), trying to hold the line of defense without using any military hardware, Igor Kimakovsky, advisor to the DPR head, told TASS.

This strategy has caused major losses among Ukrainian personnel, he noted. "Over recent days, we have been observing a very strange situation: Ukrainian armed formations have been redeploying large numbers of personnel to several villages at once in the Avdeyevka area. This is exclusively manpower while no equipment is being used in their attempts to hold the line of defense. They are trying to withstand the onslaught exclusively with troops. Such strategy resulted in major losses among the Ukrainian armed forces," the official said.

He added that in this section of the frontline, Russian forces continue to expand their control zone.