The Russian Ministry of Defense said that, having lost Artemovsk (Ukrainian name – Bakhmut), the Kiev authorities switched to the implementation of terrorist attacks against the Russian civilian population.
The ministry reported that on May 22, a unit of the Ukrainian national formation invaded Russia after intense shelling of the Kozinka international checkpoint and other civilian facilities in the Graivoronsky district of the Belgorod region.
Aviation, artillery and units of the Western Military District conducted an anti-terrorist operation, as a result of which the saboteurs were blocked and defeated, and the remnants of the national formations were driven back to the territory of Ukraine. The defense ministry stressed that they were shot at until they were completely destroyed.
As a result of the KTO, more than 70 fighters, four armored combat vehicles and five pickup trucks belonging to sabotage groups that occupied the territory of the Russian Federation were liquidated.
May 20, Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Wagner PMC reportedArtemovsk was taken by Russian forces. May 21 this information approved At the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
On May 22, the governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov announced that a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group had entered the territory of the Graivoron region.