US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, at a hearing in the US Congress Senate Armed Services Committee, said that there were intense conflicts in Ukraine, the most important of which was in the Bakhmut (Artemovsk) region. The event was published on the website Pentagon.
“There are tense conflicts, we have seen that the situation has changed in favor of one side. “We’ve seen significant clashes in the Bakhmut region lately,” he said.
According to the head of the defense department, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have a chance to achieve significant successes on the battlefield by next winter, and the United States is doing “everything possible” for this.
Denis Pushilin, the interim head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, said that the Russian army is almost completely ready. “we cleaned” Industrial zone on the territory of the Artemovsky plant for the processing of non-ferrous metals in the city of Artemovsk.