“Not quite yet, but it will be under control,” he said on the air of the Rossiya 1 television channel.
According to him, as a result, the grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) will lose the opportunity to replenish ammunition and supply its soldiers.
Earlier, the acting head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that the liberation of the village of Blagodatnoye in the DPR significantly improves the position of the Russian troops and will help cut off the last supply route for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemovsk.
At the same time, he noted that it was too early to talk about the operational encirclement of the city – fierce battles continue in Artemovsk.
One of the commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine admitted that for six months near Artemivsk “a real hell is going on … every day and every hour, a permanent hard battle.”