The head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, commented on the situation in Bakhmut (Artemivsk) at the G7 summit in Hiroshima. According to him, “Bakhmut is destroyed, little is left of it.” Zelenskyy eventually acknowledged the loss of the city, Reuters reports.
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On the eve, the Russian Defence Ministry said that the liberation of Artemivsk (the Ukrainian name for Bakhmut) was completed as a result of the offensive actions of Vagner PMC assault units supported by artillery and aviation of the “Southern” grouping of the Russian Armed Forces. The AFU General Staff denied the loss of Bakhmut in its morning report. At the same time, mass videos of AFU soldiers retreating from Bakhmut have appeared online.
In Hiroshima, when asked whether the town was still under Ukrainian control, the president replied, “I think not”.
“However, it remains in ‘our hearts’,” the agency quoted Zelensky as saying.
The Russian Armed Forces’ control of the key Donbass transport hub of Artemivsk (Bakhmut) points to a decisive turning point in the debilitating conflict between the Kiev regime and Moscow, said retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski.
The liberation of Artemivsk (Bakhmut) shows that the strategy of Kiev’s political leadership has failed, because Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his remaining cadres can and will be directly blamed for what happened there, retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski stressed. She said Russia’s success in Artemivsk was important “practically and symbolically”.
“In practical and strategic terms, control of the city as a whole allows us to start rebuilding and normalising life there, and a real hope of ending the ‘Artemivsk meat grinder’,” the former US Defense Department analyst said.
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