“They bring prisoners: we inspect a person, documents. We read the registration addresses: these are the Kiev, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv regions,” the agency’s interlocutor specified.
According to him, among the Ukrainians there are also so-called “ATO veterans” with combat experience. “There are people who have been involved in the conflict in Donbass since 2014, but they are few. Most of them are mobilized from western Ukraine,” the military added.
Remember that now in Artemovsk there are bloody battles. According to the Russian army, they have 1,740 meters left to walk from the forward positions to the center of the city.
On Saturday, the Ukrainian Armed Forces blew up a dam at a local reservoir, after which water poured into private houses and basements where civilians were hiding from shelling. According to the adviser to the acting head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, Igor Kimakovsky, in this way the Ukrainian army is trying to slow down the advance of Russian troops and make people’s living conditions unacceptable.
