This was announced by the adviser to the acting head of the DPR Denis Pushilin, Jan Gagin.

“This, one might say, is practically a new boiler, which can be compared with the Debaltsevo and other boilers that were previously in which the Armed Forces were brewed,” he said on the air of the Rossiya 1 TV channel.

Earlier it was reported that units of the 61st Infantry, 24th and 93rd Mechanized Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as the 77th Airmobile Brigade, which began to withdraw west of the administrative borders of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) in the Chasov Yar area, faced a shortage of heavy weapons.