MOSCOW, 26 Apr. The retreat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Artemivsk will lead to the collapse of the front, said Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, in an interview with the Pervy TV channel.
“This is an important strategic point for us. we need to surrender, withdraw. If we do this, we can very quickly reach our western borders,” he said.
On April 11, Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner Group, whose fighters are involved in the liberation of the city, said that Russian forces controlled more than 80 percent of the territory of Artemovsk. On April 21, he announced that the Armed Forces of Ukraine were in operational environment inside the city, but there is no talk of a boiler yet.