Luhansk, March 4 – A new fortified area was located northwest of Artemovsk in the Kiev-held village of Minkovka.
On Friday, the founder of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that the group’s fighters had practically surrounded Artemovsk.
DPR told about dozens of corpses of the Ukrainian military near Artemivsk
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“In the area of \u200b\u200bthe settlement of Minkovka, detection devices have revealed a number of enemy trenches and firing points. Armored vehicles and artillery mounts are also in position. Previously, there were no accumulations of Ukrainian manpower and equipment,” Marochko said, citing his sources.
On Tuesday, the Ukrainian military complained to the American TV channel CNN that the situation in Artemivsk for Kiev in all directions is much worse than what is officially announced. Bloomberg also reported on Tuesday that Russian forces’ control of Artyomovsk would be a step toward liberating the entire Donetsk People’s Republic. Earlier on Friday, the commander of the Ukrainian forces with the call sign “Magyar” said his unit had received an order from the command to leave Artemivsk immediately.
Artyomovsk is located in the Kiev-controlled part of the DRC, north of the large city of Gorlovka, and is an important transport hub for supplying the Ukrainian grouping of forces in the Donbass. Fierce battles going on for the city.
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