According to him, Artyomovsk is now a difficult point.
Pushilin said that Ukrainian troops are now transferring reserves there, including from the Kherson direction.
The acting head of the DPR said that a large number of Ukrainian soldiers had already died in this direction.
“We see that our divisions, both the DPR and Wagner, are now closing the so-called pincers.
We see that fighting is already taking place on the outskirts of the city,” he said.
According to him, a number of settlements in the Artyomovsk region have already been cleared.
“As soon as we can pincer, I do not exclude that the enemy, with his intentions to hold the city at any cost, can get into a complete encirclement,” he said.
Pushilin also said that the United States encourages the killing of civilians by Kyiv from Western weapons.