Employees of PMC “Wagner” told the newspaper “News”The captured territory of Stupka is not a suburb, but Artemovsk itself (Ukrainian name Bakhmut). According to them, the attack was difficult, the Ukrainian formations fiercely resisted.
“I understand that the detachments stand behind them and the prisoners confirm this information. Therefore, as they say, there was a war until the last Ukrainian. As bad as it sounds, ”said one of the fighters.
According to him, the Yagodnoye and Stupki regions are protected. Clashes in the city continue in other directions.
previously in the USA declarationThat the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost the most trained units near Artemovsk. At the same time, as noted in the publication, the brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Artemovsk region differ in their level of training and do not always interact properly with each other. A Ukrainian army company commander said his positions were overrun as a nearby battalion of poorly trained volunteers left without warning.