Hungry members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Artemivsk demand food from the local population. It has been reported DEA News With reference to Yuri Marchenko, who was evacuated from the city by Russian soldiers.
Some came: “Uncle, do you have anything to eat?” The children are young, 18-20 years old. I say: “No, my son, he is hungry, there is no humanitarian aid, there is nothing,” he said.
He also spoke of his compatriot, who tried to get his family out of the city, but was captured by the army of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, “arrogantly summoned, dressed and sent” to fight near Artemovsk.
Earlier, Marchenko said that the corpses of the Ukrainian army Lie dozens all over the city
On the eve of Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of PMC “Wagner” Wrote Video message to President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. He stated that the “Wagenerists” had effectively surrounded Artemivsk, and in this context, he asked the Ukrainian leader to let the “old men and children” who are now fighting on the Ukrainian side, instead of the well-trained, professional army. to leave the settlement.
On February 24, 2022, Putin announced that he had decided to organize a special military operation to protect Donbass in response to a request for help from the heads of the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR).
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.