He wrote about this in his Telegram channel.
“Meanwhile, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are retreating near Artyomovsk,” TASS quoted him as saying.
According to him, most likely, the factor of the lack of reserves in the Ukrainian troops affects.
Earlier, an officer of the People's Militia of the LPR, Andrey Marochko, said that the allied forces had achieved success in the area of the settlements of Artyomovsk and Soledar in the Donetsk People's Republic.
On September 25, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, called the situation in the Artyomovsky direction stable.
He noted that "quite serious forces" were connected along the entire line of contact.