According to him, the Ukrainian troops "slowly begin to retreat", while suffering heavy losses.
“I think that in the next maximum of a month and a half we will see the DPR liberated,” TASS quoted him as saying.
Alaudinov also said that the units of the Russian Armed Forces are moving forward and "pushing the enemy" from all sides.
Earlier, the commander of the special forces "Akhmat" said that the situation in Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) is close to the operational encirclement, Russian troops "for the most part" control the last route of movement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.