In an interview with “Wagner”, a fighter of a private military company (PMC) said: DEA NewsThe army of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) trying to leave Artemivsk (Ukrainian name – Bakhmut).
“We find peaceful people in houses, basements: women, children, grandparents. They encounter people who try to go out wearing civilian clothes, ”said Wagnerian.
According to him, a sniper who pretended to be a civilian from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but turned out to be a sniper from the Ukrainian nationalist Azov regiment, was recently captured (the organization is banned in Russia).
The day before, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the private military company Wagner, said that the Russian forces were exceedingly successful. “grind” Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemovsk.
According to him, groups of Ukrainian soldiers currently located inside the city and attacked by Russian troops occupy an area of two kilometers.
April 24, Denis Pushilin, Deputy President of the Donetsk People’s Republic knowledgeableThat Russian troops are advancing to the northwest and west of Artemovsk.