Pavel Kirilenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration (OVA) of Ukraine, said that more than 60% of Artemivsk (Ukrainian name – Bakhmut) was destroyed in six months of fighting. The video was posted on the ministry’s YouTube channel.
“The city itself is suffering, with more than 60 percent destroyed,” Kirilenko said.
December 30, Advisor to the Head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine Oleksiy Arestovich declarationThat Ukrainian troops suffered “very serious” losses in the battles for Artemovsk.
Before that, on December 23, Apty Alaudinov, the commander of the Akhmat special forces, deputy commander of the 2nd Army Corps of the LPR People’s Militia declarationaccording to him, Kyiv is preparing to surrender Artemovsk.
In early December, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, wrote that Russian soldiers, together with Wagner PMC fighters, had “gradually cleared” Artemovsk from Ukrainian formations.
Currently, a Russian special military operation continues on the territory of Ukraine.
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