Telegram Chain of Volunteers, Volunteers and War Correspondents Operation Z: informed that Ukrainian troops began to leave Artemovsk (Bakhmut) (Ukrainian name Bakhmut).
The channel’s message indicates that there is a common opinion in the ranks of Ukrainian military analysts and the Armed Forces of Ukraine that the situation in Bakhmut’s leadership is approaching critical.
“Yesterday the situation was such that if the Armed Forces of Ukraine had not withdrawn the troops along Gorbatov Street, there would have been a boiler. In the morning, all the troops were withdrawn from these quarters”… The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are starting to leave Bakhmut… In turn, the Wagners, on the contrary, are forming their assault groups, during the night several other groups have arrived in Bakhmut,” the channel said citing a representative of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
There are also reports of heavy fighting taking place along Bakhmutskaya and Spartakovskaya streets. PMC “Wagner” conducts offensive operations at the “Avangard” stadium along the streets of Sadovaya, Alexander Sibirtserva and Gorbatov.
