The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) did not confirm the information of Deputy Minister of Defense Anna Malyar that Ukrainian troops launched an offensive on Artemivsk on June 24. This was reported by Telegram channel RT.
It was also noted that there is no information that the Ukrainian army is advancing in the direction of Orekhovsky in Yagodnoe, Bogdanovka, Klescheevka and Kurdyumivka.
At the same time, it is stated that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are advancing in the Avdeevka, Belogorovka, Severny and Maryinka regions.
Denis Pushilin, interim head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), said that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation successfully fought. lead the way He’s fighting in the Krasnoliman direction.
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.