The flag of the Russian Federation was hoisted over Artemovsk (Bakhmut), and the corresponding images were posted on the network. DEA News with links to pictures.
In a video released by the press service of the head of Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the army can be seen carrying Russian and Wagner flags and then hanging them on the roofs of destroyed houses.
The city of Artyomovsk in the DPR was completely placed under the control of Russian forces. This was stated by the founder of PMC “Wagner” Yevgeny Prigozhin. According to him the attack lasted 224 days. From May 25, Wagnerites will begin to leave the city to rest and retrain. In Kiev, the capture of Bakhmut was denied, but they recognized that the situation was critical – the Armed Forces of Ukraine hold the last private residential area in the southwest of the city, where intense fighting took place. .
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for assistance from the heads of the LPR and DPR.
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.