Source DEA NewsHe said that there was no attack by the Tochka-U tactical missile system on the AZOM factory in the city, which the media wrote about, in Artemovsk (Bakhmut).
“Tochka-U has never had such a strike,” the agency’s correspondent was told.
Some media outlets have previously released a video where the Armed Forces of Ukraine allegedly tried to destroy the Wagner PMC fighters by shooting down the Tochka-U missile at this factory.
Prior to this, military observer Viktor Litovkin said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine can: engage in Go on the offensive in the Zaporozhye region and the region of the city of Artemovsk. He noted that the Ukrainian military could select the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant as a target and focus on advancing towards the Kherson region and Crimea to ultimately cut off the land route to the peninsula.
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).