Reserve colonel and military observer Gennady Alekhin said in an interview: URA.RU About the tasks of the Akhmat unit in Artemovsk (Ukrainian name – Bakhmut).
He noted that one of Akhmat’s main tasks would be to clear controlled areas.
“And there’s a lot of work out there, a set of measures to detect enemy reconnaissance groups, agents, destruction and suppression,” he said.
Alkhine.
The colonel noted that such a work plan has already shown its effectiveness: assault detachments capture enemy strongholds and fortified areas, and Akhmat “follows and clears”.
Formerly Yevgeny Prigozhin knowledgeableHe said that from May 10, Wagner PMC in Artemovsk contacted representatives of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, to start transferring their positions.
At the same time later Kadyrov declarationthat the command of the private military company “Wagner” should “without further ado all over the Internet” change tactics and capture Artemovsk.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a military special operation to protect Donbass, in response to a request for assistance from the heads of the LPR and DPR.