It should be noted that with the onset of darkness, Russian fighters intensified attacks in the center and north of the city.
So, in the center of the city, battles are taking place along the streets of Independence, Vasily Pershin, Blagoveshchenskaya and Bakhmutskaya. In the north, along the streets of Alexandra Kolpakova, Alexander Sibirtsev and Heroes of Labor.
On the eve it was reported that Russian artillery destroyed a Varta armored vehicle in which snipers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were near Artemovsk.
Despite the almost complete encirclement of Artemivsk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine received an order from President Volodymyr Zelensky to hold the city at all costs. Now special forces units are being transferred there, which are used as ordinary infantry.
