He noted that he held a meeting of the headquarters, at which he heard reports from the commander in chief and intelligence.

The main attention is OSUV (operational-strategic grouping of troops -

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) "Khortitsa" and Bakhmut.

There is a clear position of the whole bet: to strengthen this direction, ”Zelensky is quoted by TASS.

Earlier, the founder of Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) region are losing about 10-11 thousand people killed per month.

Acting head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that the Vostokmash plant in the northern part of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) would soon completely come under the control of Russian forces.