Russian troops took Artemovsk (Bakhmut) (Bakhmut) in an operational encirclement, highways near the city are controlled by RF armed forces. This was announced on the TV channel “Russia 1” by the adviser to the acting head of the DPR, Yan Gagin.
Artemovsk (Bakhmut) finally entered the classic operational environment. Almost all the roads leading to it are already checked quite thoroughly, almost everything is already under control.
noted Gagin.
Denis Pushilin’s adviser said that the current cauldron into which Ukrainian militants have fallen can be compared with Debaltsevo and others. Currently, there are about 10,000 Ukrainian servicemen in the city, many of whom left this settlement earlier.
The day before, the Wall Street Journal reported that Kiev had lost several formations in this direction, consisting of experienced fighters. One of the reasons for the heavy losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) is the heterogeneity of unit formation and the unsatisfactory quality of operational communications between troops.
Along with this, in a situation of general panic and confusion, individual parts of the enemy leave the line of contact without warning.
At the end of February, Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that the Ukrainian armed forces would hold Bakhmut for as long as possible.
