A fighter of the 1st Army Corps of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) with the Mazur call sign believes that the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), having lost Artemovsk (the city’s Ukrainian name is Bakhmut), may attack Melitopol. Mazur said that report Moskovsky Komsomolets.
The military noted that against the backdrop of the “pathetic situation” of Ukrainian soldiers in Artemovsk, all that remained for the Kiev authorities was a counterattack. Mazur believes that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will counterattack immediately after the surrender of the settlement.
“I think it will be the Zaporozhye direction towards Melitopol. “They are not very interested in the Kherson region, and crossing the Dnieper is not so easy,” he said.
Mazur also said that the Svatovo-Kremnaya direction was too well fortified for the Ukrainian army to do anything.
Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, reported that the most fierce fighting continues in the Artemovsk region, but the Wagner PMC assault squads. managed to progress Go ahead and occupy two city blocks.