“Only one road to Bakhmut (Artyomovsk), from the northwest, is still under the complete control of Ukraine,” the article says.
On January 24, the acting head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine had only one road left to get to Artyomovsk.
On January 27, the commander of the Akhmat special forces, the deputy commander of the 2nd Army Corps of the People's Militia of the LPR, Apty Alaudinov, said that the situation in Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) was close to the operational encirclement.
According to him, the Russian Armed Forces "for the most part" control the last route of movement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.