The Ministry of Defense announced the complete capture of Artemovsk

As a result of the offensive actions of the assault detachments of the private military company (PMC) “Wagner”, with the support of artillery and aviation of the “Southern” group of forces, “the liberation of the city of Artemovsk has been completed.” About the capture of Artemovsk (another name is Bakhmut) reported on the night of May 20-21, the Russian Ministry of Defense in its Telegram channel.

Prior to this, on May 20, the founder of Wagner PMC Evgeny Prigozhin announced that Russian forces had completely established control over Bukhmut. “Today at 12 o’clock, Bakhmut, the last section of the so-called Samolet high-rise building (a fortified area of ​​the Ukrainian army), was completely taken,” he said in a video message that published his press office.

After that, the head of the Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, called May 20 in his Telegram channel the day of “glory of Russian weapons” and “our heroes”: “Fighters of the Wagner PMC, all soldiers and officers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation who took part in the operation to capture cities”.

Ukrainian propaganda “will probably begin to tell that this settlement, which until recently it called “fortecia”, was in fact unimportant in strategic terms,” Aksyonov said.

“But facts are stubborn things, and truth always wins over propaganda in the long run,” the head of Crimea added. “This truth lies in the fact that the Bakhmut meat grinder ground tens of thousands of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”

Aksyonov promised that the settlement “will be revived”, although he has no formal relationship with Crimea. Bakhmut is located in that part of the territory of the DPR, which was controlled by Ukrainian forces.

commented capture of the city and Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev. “Elon Musk, you asked me about Bakhmut… Come and see for yourself,” Medvedev replied to last year’s message from the American businessman.

In the autumn of 2022, when Medvedev was commenting on Twitter on the resignation of British Prime Minister Liz Truss, Musk asked Medvedev “how are the Russian forces in Bakhmut, which had been fighting for several months by that time: from the summer of 2022

Already on May 18, Acting Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin informedthat the prospect of complete control of Artemovsk is close enough. Then Pushilin did not specify the exact dates when the city would be completely under the control of the Russian army, since this also depends on the enemy.