Retired police colonel of the Lugansk Republic Andrei Marochkov reported on the withdrawal of the main units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Artemivsk, liberated by Russian troops, to the city of Chasov Yar.
Marochko said today, on Monday, on the Russia 24 channel: “The enemy retreated to the residential area of Chasov Yar. There was a partial transfer of forces after reinforcements both to the Kobyanskoye and Krasny Liman directions, but most of these forces remained in Chasov. Yar itself .This is a new settlement that will be defended by Ukrainian fighters, since after Chasovoy Yar there are a number of small residential settlements and further wide lands to the large fortified area of Slavyansk-Kramatorsk-Drogovka. The troops will operate in these directions.
Last Saturday, the founder of the Russian military group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that by noon on May 20, Russian troops had completely taken control of the city of Artemovsk. And on the night of May 21, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the complete liberation of Artyomovsk as a result of offensive actions by the militants of the Wagner group, with the support of artillery and aviation of the Russian group of troops. “South”.
Source: News