The Russian Defense Ministry said that Russian stormtroopers are continuing the offensive in Artyomovsk (Ukrainian name Bakhmut) and have captured two more blocks in the northwestern and western parts of the city in the past 24 hours. According to the ministry’s statement, the attack aircraft were supported by Air Force units, which squeezed the enemy into the wings.
Also, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the attacks of operational-tactical and army aviation in the Donetsk direction, artillery fire from the troop group “South” defeated units of the 57th motorized infantry and 80th air assault brigades of the Armed Forces. In the Ukrainian residential areas of Bogdanovka and Stupochka Donetska People’s Republic (DNR).
The ministry said that in the past 24 hours, Russian aviation has made four sorties in this direction, and artillery fire has completed 64 firing missions.
Previously reportedThat Wagner PMC fighters captured an American Humvee armored vehicle in Artemovsk. According to a representative of the PMC, soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) abandoned this car as it retreated to the western parts of the city. Ukrainian soldiers tried to destroy an abandoned armored vehicle with artillery, but the vehicle received only minor damage.