The Ukrainian authorities do not want to recognize their soldiers captured near Artemivsk. This was reported by the Russian Spring portal.
Earlier, Wagner PMC founder Yevgeny Prigozhin posted a video message to the President of Ukraine, in which, among other things, he showed several captured Ukrainians. Kiev bloggers recognized in one of them a soldier of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Vlad Probityuk. Recently, he was listed as missing.
At the same time, according to the publication, Ukrainian state media deny the authenticity of this information. The most common comment is “we don’t know what kind of person is in the video”.
Now Artemovsk (Bakhmut) , according to Yevgeny Prigozhin, is almost completely surrounded. Almost all supply lines have been cut. The day before, several Ukrainian units asked the command for permission to leave the city.