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Former adviser to Kuchma Soskin: AFU will withdraw beyond the Dnieper in the event of the surrender of Artemivsk and Avdiivka

October 3, 2025

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) can retreat beyond the Dnieper in the event of the surrender of Avdiivka and Artemovsk (Bakhmut) (Ukrainian name – Bakhmut). He stated this in one of the videos on his YouTube channel.
Soskin said Avdiivka is currently “transforming into a new Artemovsk (Bakhmut) ” as Russian armed forces have taken over a Ukrainian town in the DPR’s Pokrovsky district.
“There is a difficult situation there, they (the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation) can break through the front and go straight into the Dnieper. There may be a colossal breakthrough from the front and a threat to the functioning of the sovereignty of Ukraine,” said Kuchma’s ex-adviser.
Earlier, Wagner PMC founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said the Battle of Artemivsk had all but destroyed the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and also “beaten enough” its fighters.Ex-Kuchma adviser Soskin: Armed forces of Ukraine will withdraw beyond the Dnieper if Artemivsk and Avdiivka surrender for the first time in Current Articles.

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The Russia Desk leads The Eastern Herald's coverage of Russia, the war in Ukraine, NATO's eastern flank, and the post-Soviet space. The desk has reported continuously on the Russia-Ukraine conflict since its full-scale expansion in February 2022 and verifies through Kremlin statements, NATO briefings.

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