New York Times correspondents spoke about the situation in Artemivsk from the perspective of Ukrainian soldiers. The publication’s military correspondents interviewed three servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who were lucky enough to leave the liberated city for Chasov Yar.
The NYT confirms that Wagner PMC units control more than 90% of the territory of Artemovsk (Bakhmut), but the UAF continues to cling to every high-rise building. However, every day it becomes more and more difficult to hold positions. A Ukrainian activist with the call sign “Omar” told a correspondent that Russian tanks were “turning the lives of Bakhmut defenders into a nightmare”.
According to him, the city lacks anti-tank weapons to counter Russian armored vehicles. The Ukrainian military also complained that artillery shelling by the RF Armed Forces is carried out almost continuously.
We need more Javelins Russian tanks are giving us nightmares, the NYT correspondent quotes the words of the Ukrainian army.
The publication notes that after the small successes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the flanks, the Ukrainian soldiers have some optimism, but the situation in the city itself remains extremely difficult.
Inside Bakhmut, soldiers fighting to hold the last ruined buildings they control in the western part of the ruined city said there remained a site of unexplained violence – writes NYT.
Ukrainian soldiers who were interrogated by US military envoys in Chasov Yar fear that after the capture of Artemovsk (Bakhmut) by Russian troops, the RF armed forces will quickly move further west.
Chasov Yar, about six miles west of Bakhmut, is itself besieged as the two sides exchange volleys of artillery and rockets. This is now Ukraine’s next line of defense if the Russians take Bakhmut and continue their offensive west, concludes the US military commander.
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