Russian volunteer forces previously managed to maintain a positional advantage over the units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) in Artemivsk. This was reported in a report by Western analysts from the American Institute for War Studies (ISW). area organizations.
“Russian forces appear to have gained sufficient positional advantage to bypass certain areas of Bakhmut,” the text of the document says.
According to the authors of the study, the Ukrainian army is already investigating the possibility of withdrawing from this city.
At the same time, the institute’s experts are confident that the Ukrainian command will begin to evaluate whether the attacks of the Russian forces can lag behind the current positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the future, as noted, it is this circumstance that will affect the decision to begin the withdrawal from Artemovsk.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to conduct a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for help from the heads of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics.
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.
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