Prigozhin spoke about the difficult situation in Artyomovsk

“On Bakhmut (Artyomovsk. - 

) the situation is difficult, very difficult.

The enemy bites for every meter.

And the closer we are to the city center, the harder the battles, the more artillery works on us, the more tanks.

The Ukrainians are throwing up endless reserves,” he said.

Prigozhin added that despite this, the fighters will go forward and "will not disgrace the glory of Russian weapons."

On March 11, the founder of PMC Wagner reported that Russian forces were located 1.2 km from the center of Artyomovsk.

Earlier, the commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces unit, Denis Yaroslavsky, said that the Ukrainian military could end up in a pocket in the DPR, as was the case in Debaltseve in 2015.