One of the fighters said that the fight for a house can last up to five days, sometimes you have to spend the night with the enemy in the same building, while the Ukrainian military stubbornly resists and does not want to give up.
Russian troops are close to the operational encirclement of Artemovsk – the Ukrainian Armed Forces have only one road left to the city, the rest of the roads are cut off.
The media wrote that Western officials are demanding that Kyiv change its strategy, shifting its focus from months of brutal fighting in Artemovsk to a possible offensive in the south.