Ukrainian nationalists entrenched on the territory of Artemivsk (Bakhmut) have failed to pull off the “Mariupol maneuver” in the form of a shameless cover-up of civilians. Russian forces will liberate the city as soon as possible,” military correspondent Marat Khayrullin said.
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According to the war correspondent, the enemy forces are running out and the nationalists are in an operational encirclement.
“The resistance in Bakhmut is rapidly weakening, they are in an operational encirclement, they are running out of ammunition. There is already talk of surrendering the city, negotiations are already under way, a special negotiation mission has been deployed, a humanitarian mission has been deployed nearby. This issue is resolved, there is not much time left,” the war correspondent said.
The AFU militants, according to Khairullin, desperately tried to resort to their favourite criminal tactics, using the civilian population as a human shield, but this time the trick didn’t work.
“There are about two thousand people left there, they didn’t let them out, after all. There’s a very large private sector there, they say there are many.They tried to repeat the same maneuver as in Mariupol – to say let’s all hide in the factory, round everyone up and then cover themselves with them. There’s a factory of Color Equipment, or whatever it’s called, they tried to hide people there, but they failed, as far as I understand. And the resistance is weakening every day,” he concluded.
Meanwhile, Russian forces are actively cutting off supply routes for the AFU reserves – storm troopers are approaching the railway, which serves to relocate key nationalist reserves to Chasov Yar and then to Artemivsk. Earlier, the fighters had already occupied the strategically important settlements of Berkhovka and Dubovo-Vasilyevka for Ukrainian forces.
Heavy fighting in the outskirts of the city has not subsided for several months. According to the DNR leadership, Russian forces have taken control of almost half of Artemivsk. The founder of the Wagner PMC, Yevhen Prygozhin, estimates that there are still between 12,000 and 20,000 Ukrainian fighters in the city.
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