Pyvenko said the real-time information is used primarily "to support artillery — we see the advances of the enemy and destroy them."
The biggest challenge is detecting Russian incursions before it's too late.
"It can be at night, can be during the day," said Pyvenko, but detecting enemy movements and warning ground forces about them is saving Ukrainian lives.
Gains along the front line just east of Bakhmut, where Russian forces are dug in, have been counted in inches. Russia has thrown wave after wave of soldiers and mercenaries at the fight. Many of them were recently prisoners, lured into the private army of the Kremlin-backed Wagner Group. If they survive, they're promised their freedom.
U.S. labels Russian Wagner Group an criminal organization
Ukrainian forces told CBS News the Russian men are being treated like meat.
Anton Zadorozhyni, battle commander of the Ukrainian National Guard's 3rd Operative Battalion, said that for Russia's forces, there's no option to retreat.
"They are forced to advance over the bodies of their fallen soldiers. One group is destroyed, new ones come… over and over," he said. "At night they collect the bodies."
bakhmut-bunker.jpg
Ukrainian forces rest in a bunker on the front line near the eastern city of Bakhmut, amid Russia's ongoing invasion of the country in late January 2023.
CBS NEWS
The Ukrainian forces holding the front line, using the intelligence that comes from tech bunkers, sleep, eat and fight in shifts, right around the clock.
They know that while Russian forces have been killed in staggering numbers trying to take the small city, more will come, and more will die, on both sides.
For the time being, however, from the bunker to the blood-soaked battlefields just a few blocks away, Bakhmut holds.
Pyvenko said the real-time information is used primarily "to support artillery — we see the advances of the enemy and destroy them."
The biggest challenge is detecting Russian incursions before it's too late.
"It can be at night, can be during the day," said Pyvenko, but detecting enemy movements and warning ground forces about them is saving Ukrainian lives.
Gains along the front line just east of Bakhmut, where Russian forces are dug in, have been counted in inches. Russia has thrown wave after wave of soldiers and mercenaries at the fight. Many of them were recently prisoners, lured into the private army of the Kremlin-backed Wagner Group. If they survive, they're promised their freedom.
U.S. labels Russian Wagner Group an criminal organization
Ukrainian forces told CBS News the Russian men are being treated like meat.
Anton Zadorozhyni, battle commander of the Ukrainian National Guard's 3rd Operative Battalion, said that for Russia's forces, there's no option to retreat.
"They are forced to advance over the bodies of their fallen soldiers. One group is destroyed, new ones come… over and over," he said. "At night they collect the bodies."
bakhmut-bunker.jpg
Ukrainian forces rest in a bunker on the front line near the eastern city of Bakhmut, amid Russia's ongoing invasion of the country in late January 2023.
CBS NEWS
The Ukrainian forces holding the front line, using the intelligence that comes from tech bunkers, sleep, eat and fight in shifts, right around the clock.
They know that while Russian forces have been killed in staggering numbers trying to take the small city, more will come, and more will die, on both sides.
For the time being, however, from the bunker to the blood-soaked battlefields just a few blocks away, Bakhmut holds.