He noted that the taken Stupka area was not a suburb, but Artyomovsk itself, the assault was difficult, the Ukrainian formations fiercely resisted.
According to him, the assault detachments have already passed and cleared the areas of Yagodnoye and Stupki, the only road to the city, controlled by the VFU, is under constant fire.
Earlier, the founder of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, stated that Artyomovsk was practically encircled.