 Soldiers of 92nd Brigade of Ukraine eliminate Russian infantry and equipment in Bakhmut. Soldiers of the 1st Assault Battalion of the 92nd Separate Assault Brigade, named after Kosh Ataman, Ivan Circo eliminated enemy infantry and equipment in the Bakhmut sector with accurate ammunition drops from a drone and FPV drone attacks. A video of the Ukrainian defenders work against the occupiers was published on the Opera Tidni ZSU telegram channel. As Russian forces battle for the industrial city of Abdiivka in Ukraine's Donetsk region, members of a Ukrainian unit to the north say they've slowly gained territory. The fighting has taken a heavy toll as soldiers hold their positions from flooded trenches. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians rose to fight at the beginning of Russia's full-scale war in February 2022, joining the then 261,000 strong Ukrainian armed forces. But more than a year and a half later, a series of high-casualty campaigns such as the Battle for Bakhmut has shrunk the original force, with soldiers often saying that only a fraction of today's soldiers have served from the start of the war. Ukraine continues to mobilise more men, but the survival rate of raw recruits is low and often complicates the job for the more experienced soldiers as the new troops are not psychologically or tactically ready for the reality of war, battle-hardened soldiers say.