Analysts at the American Institute for War Studies (ISW) announced that Russian troops are advancing in the central part of Artemovsk (Ukrainian name – Bakhmut). The report states that ISW.
The publication says that the fighters of the private military company (PMC) “Wagner” were able to move to the city center and take control of the Artemovsk administration.
“The fighters of the Wagner group continued their attack in the center of Bakhmut and on the night of April 2 captured the building of the city administration,” the analysts say.
ISW notes that PMC founder Yevgeny Prigozhin “raised the Russian flag with an inscription in memory of the murdered blogger Maxim Fomin (Vladlen Tatarsky).
Also, the Institute for War Studies quoted the words of a businessman that “Artemovsk was taken legally.”
Earlier, Yevgeny Prigozhin said that the Russian forces were “legally”. received artemovsk. According to Prigozhin, the Armed Forces of Ukraine remained in the western parts of the city.