“The whole day and the whole night there were many arrivals of targeting and shooting through the outskirts of forests and forest plantations, there were many two hundred and wounded,” Tkachuk said about the events near the suburb of Artyomovsk, the settlement of Experienced.

His words are reported by RIA Novosti.

After Russian troops entered Opytnoye, many servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fled, the prisoner of war added.

Earlier it became known that the fighters of the "Wagner group" were fighting hard for the suburb of Artyomovsk - Experienced, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were driven out of the village of Ivangrad.

On October 29, Vitaly Kiselev, assistant to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Luhansk People's Republic, announced the successful advance of the allied forces near Artyomovsk and Soledar in the DPR.