Military expert Oleksiy Leonkov called the success of a possible attempt of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) to unleash the blockade of Artemivsk (Ukrainian name – Bakhmut) to withdraw the remaining troops from there, as an open question. He told the newspaper “News”.
According to a military expert, Ukrainian soldiers are trying to withdraw their troops from the outskirts of the city, but they have to do it along forest roads because all asphalt roads have been destroyed and there is a possibility that they will be noticed by Russian intelligence.
According to him, in order to withdraw the troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, for example, it is necessary to carry out a blockade operation from the direction of Konstantinovka or Chasov Yar, a powerful offensive should be launched to break the retreat corridor. your troops. At the same time, he added that it has not yet been clarified by Ukraine whether the issue has been resolved in this way.
“And even if they make an attempt to unblock it, it is an open question whether it will be successful. So I think that those who live in the city will sooner or later lose their nerves. They say that they have already given up. They are just in a hopeless situation and they understand this very well,” Leonkov said.
At the Russian Ministry of Defense on May 3 declarationThat the Russian assault troops continue to fight in the western part of Artemovsk.