John Kirby, the US White House strategic communications coordinator, said that a fierce battle was going on in Artemivsk (Ukrainian name – Bakhmut). It has been reported DEA News.
According to Kirby, he cannot confirm the information that Russian troops have captured the administrative building.
“There is still quite a fierce war going on. I cannot confirm the reports that the Russians have taken the administrative building,” said Kirby, answering the question of the journalists.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, formerly the founder of the private military company (PMC) “Wagner” aforementionedThat Sergei Surovikin, former commander of the Special Operations Forces Joint Group, participated in the development of the Bakhmut Meat Grinder operation to capture Artemovsk.
Before that, Denis Pushilin, the interim president of the Donetsk People’s Republic aforementionedThere is currently no planned withdrawal of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Artemivsk.