Ukrainian medics place 12 beehives to house 600,000 insects near Bakhmut

Ukrainian medics established a hand-made apiary in the backyard of the battalion's medical station.

All 12 new beehives will house over 600,000 valuable insects near the frontline Bakhmut, Ukraine's Defense Ministry reports.

Serhii is the radiotelegraphist of the medical center and the creator of this apiary. Before mobilization, he worked as a cook and was woven into beekeeping for five years. He does not consider this a very great experience and says that "you can do this all your life, and still you will not know everything about bees, the press service says.

Serhii gave his own bees to a neighbor. Now, he has 12 new homemade hives in the own front apiary in the backyard of the battalion's first-aid post.

When asked how the cook became an lifesaver, he jokes "he was not afraid of blood. " Over the past year, as part of a separate mechanized brigade named after Lord Kostiantyn Ostrozhsky, Serhii managed to work in Bakhmut, Kharkiv region,  Zhytomyr region, and passed through Kherson.

Here, a few kilometers from enemy positions, he built two months ago front hives, noted in the department.

Fighting in Bakhmut

For many months, Bakhmut remained the epicenter of hostilities in eastern Ukraine. Since the end of May, Ukrainian defenders have intensified offensive operations on the flanks of the wiped-out town.

According to the AFU General Staff, Ukrainian troops continue to conduct offensive operations south of the city of Bakhmut and are holding up on the borders reached.

Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar noted that the occupation forces were trapped and could not leave the town.

We have already reached many prevailing heights, and, in fact, the invaders are trapped there, because they cannot get out of Bakhmut and cannot fully advance through the city itself, the deputy defense minister said.

The commander of the Ground Forces Oleksandr Syrsky, previously explained that Ukrainian forces have all the potential to take Bakhmut into the operational encirclement, which will make it impossible for the occupiers to stay in the city.

Hence he set the task for the military to "squeeze" the village of the neighboring Klishchiivka. According to ISW analysts, Ukrainian forces are successful on the southern flank of the Bakhmut direction.