The US administration recognized the successes of the Russian Armed Forces in the Bakhmut area

“The Russians have made gradually increasing progress.

And we believe that they continue to achieve gradually increasing progress in this [direction],” TASS quoted him as saying.

According to him, the Russian Armed Forces have invested "serious efforts in Bakhmut."

“Ukrainians are still fighting bravely for him.

The outcome is currently uncertain,” the official said.

On December 23, Akhmat special forces commander Apty Alaudinov called Bakhmut (Artyomovsk) in the DPR the hottest spot on the front.

As Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner Group, noted, Artyomovsk is “a fortress in every house,” and fighters “butt heads for every house, sometimes for more than one day.”

In Kyiv, it was recognized that the Ukrainian army was suffering serious losses in the areas of Bakhmut (Artemovsk) and Soledar.