Russian troops occupied more than a third of the city of Artemovsk (Ukrainian name – Bakhmut). This was reported by the Ukrainian edition “Strana.ua”, with reference to Denis Yaroslavsky, an officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
As the Ukrainian officer said, the Russian Armed Forces occupied the industrial zone of the city and its private sector “along the river”.
»[Российской армии] he really succeeded in breaking through small sections of the front and approaching our positions. Now the city is constantly, systematically … under mortar fire, ”quotes Yaroslavsky from an interview with Current Time (the organization was included in the list of foreign agents by the Ministry of Justice).
According to him, the Russian army has taken control of the fire of the two main roads leading to Artyomovsk from the rear of Ukraine and is finally trying to cut off the supply routes of the city.
Yaroslavsky also said that Artyomovsk was raided not by PMCs, but by regular Russian troops. “The enemy is difficult. And there is no easy march here, ”the officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine concluded.
February 6, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky spent At the meeting of the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief, where the issue of providing weapons and ammunition to the army of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Artemivsk was discussed separately.