“Local residents are being evacuated from the outskirts of Artyomovsk.
They are being taken to us," TASS quoted him as saying.
He added that a group of 50 refugees will arrive at temporary accommodation centers in the near future.
On February 12, evacuated residents of the city of Soledar in the DPR told how the military of the Ukrainian Armed Forces forced them to leave their homes.
On February 14, a Wagner PMC fighter said that members of the group evacuate civilians from Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) almost every night.