"We have already suppressed almost everything": Russian forces are advancing in Artyomovsk

The night before, on April 29, the founder of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that during the day PMC units advanced 100-150 m in the city.

A fighter of the Wagner Group, in a conversation with RIA Novosti, also announced the advance of forces.

"The front line is shifting closer and closer (to the western outskirts. — RT). They (the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine) "from the ceiling", if there are 1,5 km left in the city, then they were very lucky. There is little development, the residential sector, and then the private sector," he said.

According to him, the building of the medical institute, located at the highest point in the west of Artyomovsk, remained under the control of Ukrainian servicemen.

"We took a bridgehead of nine-story buildings, pushed through. Now we have only one jump left - to the medical school, this is a priority height here in the west. From there they had all the adjustments of artillery, tanks. We have already suppressed almost everything, "the military explained.

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In turn, sources of the Telegram channel "Military Chronicle" reported that the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were knocked out of the territory of the military unit in Artyomovsk. It is noted that the Ukrainian military and mercenaries defending these positions retreated across the road and occupied high-rise buildings on the street of the Liberators of Donbass.

The day before, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that Russian assault detachments, which were supported from the flanks by airborne units, continued active operations to destroy the Ukrainian military on the western outskirts of Artyomovsk.

Ukrainian aggression

On the night of April 30, Ukrainian troops shelled the village of Suzemka, Bryansk region

"As a result of the strike inflicted by Ukrainian nationalists, unfortunately, two civilians were killed. According to preliminary data, one residential building was completely destroyed, two more houses have partial destruction. Operational services continue to work at the scene, "the governor of the region, Alexander Bogomaz, wrote in his Telegram channel.

At the same time, a few hours later, the Armed Forces of Ukraine again shelled the village of Suzemka with the help of MLRS. According to the head of the Bryansk region, the air defense system shot down several shells.

"There were no casualties. One residential building was partially destroyed. Operational services are working on the spot," he added.

Meanwhile, over the past day, 48 attacks by the Ukrainian military were recorded in the Donetsk People's Republic, who used 237 units of ammunition from the HIMARS MLRS, 155, 152 and 122 mm artillery.

12 settlements came under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Gorlovka, Verkhnetoretskoye, Krasny Partizan, Yasinovataya, Yakovlevka, Vasilyevka, Aleksandrovka, Yegorovka, Vladimirovka, Nikolskoye and Donetsk, where 40 residential buildings were damaged.

Dnipro

Russian artillerymen destroyed a command and observation post of Ukrainian troops and a drone control center near Kherson, as well as an ammunition and equipment depot, Alexei Rulyov, head of the press center of the Dnepr group, told RIA Novosti. He said that artillery units inflicted fire damage on the command and observation post and the control point of unmanned aerial vehicles of the 124th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as on the ammunition and equipment storage depot in the Kherson region.

About 30 people, more than a dozen armored combat vehicles and vehicles were destroyed.

Two mortar crews were also destroyed in the area of the settlements of Burgunka, Novotyaginka and Otradokamenka. In turn, air defense units suppressed two attack drones.

As reported in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on the evening of April 28, the Russian Armed Forces launched a group strike with high-precision long-range sea-based weapons at the location of the command staff of the joint group of troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "Kherson".