New York Times columnists Matthew Mpouk Bigg, Vivek Shankar and Andrew Kramer said that despite Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s statements about Artemivsk (Ukrainian name Bakhmut), residents of the country are starting to prepare for the handover of the city. They reported this in a published material. area versions.
Mick Ryan, a retired Australian Army Major General, a military analyst, agrees with their position, noting that “the Russian army is slowly but surely starting to deploy in and around Bakhmut”.
Also, experts from the Institute for the Study of War, a US think tank, believe that the “cutting of roads with vital supply lines” by the Ukrainian Armed Forces could force the Ukrainian military to abandon its positions.
A day ago, the Wall Street Journal, citing Ukrainian officers, wrote that he had been in the Artemivsk region in recent months. crushed Some of the most trained units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
On March 3, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the private military company Wagner, announced that the Russian troops were practically surrounded artemovsk.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for help from the heads of the Lugansk 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.