"Our grandfathers stormed in the same way, nothing has changed," said one of the fighters.
During the storming of the building of the local sports complex, Russian fighters took 11 prisoners, after which the "grandiose battles" moved to the neighboring building - a college.
Then, together with other assault detachments that approached, they began to work on one section of the residential sector, they began to methodically clean it up.
As the assault detachments note, until the last, the Armed Forces of Ukraine held on to the transport interchange, which led from the city, but a platoon of Russian forces after powerful battles took the most important intersection.
On May 21, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the completion of the liberation of the city of Artyomovsk in the DPR.
Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the fighters of the Wagner Group and the military of the Russian Armed Forces.