The Artemovsk (Bakhmut) police demanded that the consequences of the shelling of the Ukrainian armed forces be blamed on the Russian army. This was told by a resident of the city Alexander Brezhnev. Among other things, he was evacuated on Friday by the fighters of the Wagner group to Donetsk. His story is reported by RIA Novosti.
According to Brezhnev, Ukrainian artillery began shelling residential areas of Artemivsk in May 2022. This was done mainly at night. Already at that time, many houses were destroyed or damaged.
“Many houses were burnt down. Most are all destroyed Ukrainians. They … destroyed in such a way that they spared no one – there is a person there, no,” Brezhnev said.
According to him, the Artemovsk (Bakhmut) law enforcement authorities came to document the consequences. “The police came, and we wrote under dictation: ‘I, so and so, suffered from the bombardment of the Russian Federation… And you can’t argue with them, it was useless,’ noted the resident.
Brezhnev also said that after the shelling, the Ukrainian army persuaded the most fearful to leave the city.
