Zelensky called Artyomovsk and Soledar the most painful sectors of the front for the Armed Forces of Ukraine

According to TASS, he stated this in a video message published on his Telegram channel.

“In the Donetsk region - Bakhmut (Artyomovsk. -

), Soledar - now it is still the most hot, the most painful,” the Ukrainian leader said.

Earlier, an officer of the People's Militia of the Luhansk People's Republic, Andriy Marochko, spoke about the situation in Artyomovsk.

According to him, there is every reason to prepare the evacuation of the command post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "to a safer place."

Acting head of the DPR Denis Pushilin reported on the successes of Russian troops in the Artyomovsky and Maryinsky directions in the DPR.

As his adviser Igor Kimakovsky noted, fire control of all main roads has been achieved in the Artemovsky direction.

According to Pushilin, the liberation of Dzerzhinsk and Artemovsk will open the way to Kramatorsk.