“Artyomovsk is a fortress in every house.
For every house, the guys butt heads, sometimes for more than one day, ”RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
Prigozhin did not rule out that 500 lines of defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were equipped in the city.
“Every 10 meters is a line of defense,” he added.
Earlier, Andrey Marochko, an officer of the People's Militia of the LPR, said that the Ukrainian command sent detachments of foreign mercenaries armed with NATO-style weapons to the cities of Artyomovsk and Soledar.