Assault detachments, with the support of the Airborne Forces and the "Southern" grouping of troops, continue to oust the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) This is reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense. "In the Donetsk direction, assault detachments continued to ousted the enemy in the western part of the city," the ministry said in a summary of the fighting.
"It is noted that the airborne units pinned down the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the northern and southern outskirts of Artymovsk," it added.