“The enemy manages to advance ... In four months they have advanced up to 8 km.
Their main task is to cut off the supply of ammunition to Bakhmut and force us to leave the city, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.
According to the Ukrainian military, the city is now "very unsafe."
The founder of Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin previously said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine “are not retreating anywhere” from Artyomovsk and are fighting for every street and every house.