The Commander of the Ground Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) continues to advance in the field of Bakhmut direction. He announced this on his Telegram channel.
Syrsky noted that Ukrainian troops destroyed the Russian position in this direction.
“We keep moving forward,” he said.
On May 21, the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov declaration About the completion of the capture of Artemovsk (Ukrainian name – Bakhmut).
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the private military company “Wagner”, is also declarationThat there was not a single Ukrainian army in Artemovsk.
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 help from the heads of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR).
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.