Russian troops after sweeping bombardments crushed Ukrainian defense positions occupying the Opitnie and Ivangrad areas 5 km south of the center of Artemovsk (Bakhmut).
A short while ago, the British confirmed that Ukrainian forces had completely lost the Opitnie and Ivangrad areas.
In fact, the Russian Army raised its flag on the telecommunications tower of the furniture factory in the eastern, industrial part of Artyomovsk.
The battle forArtemovsk (Bakhmut) now enters the final stage. Ukrainian forces seem to have been exhausted with Russian forces and PMC Wagner "Musicians" having penetrated deep into the city.
The main defensive line of the Ukrainians is "broken", and therefore the Ukrainian command requires urgent reinforcements in order to resist the Russian hammering.
The Russians are very close to a great success after successive defeats in Kharkov and Kherson."
Ukrainian casualties amounted to more than 170 military and militants, four armored fighting vehicles, three trucks and six vehicles.
-During the day, operational-tactical and military aviation, missile forces and artillery hit two command positions, 63 artillery units in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 156 areas. Six ammunition, missile and artillery depots were destroyed in the areas of the Kupyansk settlements in the Kharkov region, Krasnoe, Novoselovka Pervaya of the Donetsk People's Republic, Gulyaipole in the Zaporizhye region, Kalinovka and Novoaleksandrovka in the Nikolaev region.
-The operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Su-24 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in the village of Bereznegovatoe, in the Nikolaev region.
-During the day, 15 unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down in the N. Novaya Tarasovka regions, Kharkov region, Poltava, Sofiyivka, Lugansk People's Republic, Petrovskoye, Staromayorskoye, Nikolskoye and Kodema of the Donetsk People's Republic, Energodar, Zaporizhye region, Republican, Dmitrenko, Tomarino, Chaikino and Chkalovo, Kherson region, Tauride, Dnipropetrovsk region.
-In addition, 14 missiles from MLRS HIMARS and Alder systems were shot down in the areas of the settlements of Tomarino, Otradokamenka, Novaya Kakhovka, Verovka and Veseloe in the Kherson region.
