Advisor to the head of the DPR: Russian troops control up to 70 percent of the territory of Artemovsk

March 17 2023

As of March 17, 2023, Russian units control most of Artemovsk (Bakhmut). This was stated by adviser to the acting head of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin Yan Gagin on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel.

In Artemovsk, the heaviest battles are currently going on compared to all other sectors of the front. This is recognized even by the Ukrainian side, noting that Russia has concentrated large forces in the Artemovsk direction.

As Gagin noted, Russian troops currently control about 60%, "and maybe even more - up to 70%" of the territory of the city of Artemovsk. Earlier, Gagin reported on the operational encirclement of Ukrainian formations in Artemovsk.

The acting head of the DPR Denis Pushilin himself reported on attempts by Ukrainian platoons to break out of Artemovsk during the day. He suggested that in this way the Ukrainian formations are trying to rotate and take out the wounded from the territory of the city.

Recall that the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine categorically forbids its formations, located in Artemovsk, to leave the city. Such an order was given personally by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, who fears that the loss of control over the city will be a serious blow to his image both domestically and in the West.

Of course, Zelensky does not take into account human losses in the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In fact, the destruction of the personnel of entire brigades of the Ukrainian army is taking place in Artemovsk. Even Western experts talk about the very serious consequences of the defense of the city for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Photos used:: Telegram-channel PMC "Wagner"

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poquello 17 March 2023 20: 56
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it is also on the map behind the dill only a small piece of the city, then the question of the angle of view
1. Grandfather Fichteau 17 March 2023 21: 18
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  Quote: poquello
  it is also on the map behind the dill only a small piece of the city, then the question of the angle of view
  
  The angle of view here is only to destroy the enemy’s manpower .. Grind and grind! Until, God forbid, a truce is not concluded again .. The men are evil and the rod is destroying everyone and waiting for tanks with German crosses And the devil is not our brothers
  1. Orange Bigg 17 March 2023 22: 57
    
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    Information from the Ukrainian side:
    
    Syrsky reported to Zelensky today that PMC Wagner is trying to close the boiler inside Bakhmut, and not the outer circuit, in order to avoid fighting for the village of Krasny, from which a fortified area was created. Russian troops have intensified their attacks in the south of the city and are seizing areas around the center of Bakhmut in order to encircle the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
    
    Our source in the OP said that Syrsky received unlimited opportunities to organize a counteroffensive near Bakhmut, and his plan takes into account the differences between the Wagner PMC and the Russian army. The Armed Forces of Ukraine should synchronously launch a strike from 5 directions, which should allow Bakhmut to be released and Soledar returned to Ukrainian control. The whole operation is designed for 5 days and should go at lightning speed, for these purposes shells and equipment have been accumulated in Seversk / Slavyansk / Kramatorsk / Konstantinovka.
    
    https://t.me/rezident_ua
2. Father of papa carlo 18 March 2023 03: 38
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  The world has never seen so many dead dill in one place, in this century! It's sad... They are also warriors, soldiers. Not there, of course, they sharpened their bayonets, but there is a tribute to the fighters! Not to the savages, of course.
  1. thimble 18 March 2023 04: 16
    
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    So the fact of the matter is that people with the same mentality (for example, stubbornness) are fighting on both sides, but with different ideologies. And Ukrainians, in general, are still those campaigners. Not without reason, when I served in the GSVG in the 60s, there was a saying: a Ukrainian without a badge, that a certificate without a seal. But over the past 30 years, the Zapadenskaya Bandera bastard has thoroughly polluted their brains.
Maz 17 March 2023 20: 57
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Who controls Artemovsk? Russian troops of the naf? Who? There is no one there except PMC Wagner. It was said a hundred times by Prigogine, explained and decomposed, but apparently not everyone got it. And the difference, to my great regret, is. I would like it the other way around. So that they do not hide behind a genderless expression - Russian units, volunteers, volunteer assault squads, etc. Everyone knows who takes Artemovsk - PMC Wagner. Why strange and shameful verbal perversions? Vivat musicians. Bravo Prigogine.
1. tihonmarine 17 March 2023 21: 04
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  And the difference, to my great regret, is. I would like it the other way around.
  
  I agree with you. But here it is, straight forward.
2. Rage66 17 March 2023 21: 21
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  Excuse me, are you reporting from LBS?
  Or, like all of us, do you watch telegram channels?
3. Tusv 17 March 2023 21: 26
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  Quote: Maz
  There is no one there except PMC Wagner.
  
  Wagner - troops? Jurisdiction - Russia?. What are the options? By the way, the Nazis are all PMCs, however. We call them Ukrovermacht
  1. Sergey Averchenkov 17 March 2023 21: 53
    
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    How wrong you are ... I wanted to poop on jurisdiction. Who is Wagner fighting for? For Russia? Well, what's the question? Are you giving up on Wagner? If I take SKS and shoot a Ukrainian, will you also give up on me? Or maybe you are a lawyer and fulfilling some norms is more important for you than winning? You are not right.
    1. Adrey 17 March 2023 22: 05
      
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      You need to rest Lieutenant Colonel. From the internet or something. Three days, but a week is better .
      Quote: Sergey Averchenkov
      I wanted to shit on jurisdiction.
      
      Is it for the whole thing?
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      If I take SKS and shoot a Ukrainian, will you also give up on me?
      
      In central Russia? On LBS you will not be given SCS. And why not replace the "Ukrainian" with a Tajik, Uzbek, Kazakh? It smelled like something brown...
      1. Sergey Averchenkov 17 March 2023 23: 48
        
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        Well, first of all, I am an ordinary soldier, and all these little things do not appeal to me, as before when I served, and now. In our unit it was considered a disgrace to get a corporal. Officers are another matter - they chose their own path. But it was among the soldiers.
        I think almost everything, I'm talking about lawyers. Maybe you don’t know, I have already talked about this here many times, but I received a year and a half of restriction of freedom for inflicting medium bodily harm on a Ukrainian in the 14th year. Can you imagine, Russian spring, etc. and I have a court and it's not in Ukraine, it's in Russia. How so?
        I live far from central Russia, I am far beyond the Urals. I have an SCS, a 16th single-barreled shotgun, a 12th vertical shotgun, and a small one ... And one more thing ... It’s not for you to judge me, I have almost lived my life and have seen different things ... both like you and like me ... But my choice is obvious.
        
        Havoc 18 March 2023 00: 58
        
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        Quote: Sergey Averchenkov
        but I received a year and a half of restriction of freedom for inflicting medium bodily harm on a Ukrainian in the 14th year.
        
        Tell me how you can get permission for so many firearms with article 112.
        
        Sergey Averchenkov 18 March 2023 05: 01
        
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        I have had a weapon for a very long time. The conviction was after. Although... Even if you have a criminal record... You must be a city dweller and have no idea what life is like in small towns? There is no power there, we don’t even have a policeman, we don’t close the doors to the house when we go to work (both in the USSR and now). The population of the village is 1500 (approximately, it used to be more) people - in each yard there are 2-3 trunks and I'm not sure if any of them are registered.
        
        Havoc 18 March 2023 12: 51
        
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        Quote: Sergey Averchenkov
        I have had a weapon for a very long time. The conviction was after. Although... Even if you have a criminal record... You must be a city dweller and have no idea what life is like in small towns? There is no power there, we don’t even have a policeman, we don’t close the doors to the house when we go to work (both in the USSR and now). The population of the village is 1500 (approximately, it used to be more) people - in each yard there are 2-3 trunks and I'm not sure if any of them are registered.
        
        What difference does it make, before or after you had a weapon, after the conviction is canceled, the permit must be issued again, especially for rifled ones, and registration with a criminal record is a complete ass.
        
        Sergey Averchenkov 18 March 2023 14: 48
        
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        I will answer you cunningly - I was amnestied by May 9th. How curious you are. :) And my weapon never disappeared at all - it always was, having been born. Not during the execution of the punishment, not before, not after, no one took it away from me. Maybe it's a defect of the bailiffs? Maybe. But we don't have those either.
        
        tolmachiev51 18 March 2023 03: 16
        
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        no offense, everyone has their own truth...
      2. thimble 18 March 2023 05: 02
        
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        I suspect that in the comment to which you replied, not "Ukrainian" was used, but the common name of a resident of Ukraine, which is automatically replaced on the site with "Ukrainian", as, for example, in my comment. Which is rather strange, since "dill" or "skakuas" is possible, but the inhabitants of the outskirts, as they have been called from time immemorial in Rus' because of the forelock on their heads, cannot. It's some kind of weird super-tolerance.
    2. Tusv 17 March 2023 23: 52
      
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      How wrong you are ... I wanted to poop on jurisdiction. Who is Wagner fighting for? For Russia? Well, what's the question? Are you giving up on Wagner?
      
      And so? Wagner is an army! - Army, Jurisdiction Russia - Russia. Fighting for Russia? - For Russia. Conclusion Wagner Armed forces of the Russian Federation. How did you understand? The same post, only more detailed.
      And what am I wrong in?
      PS; Ours - always ours, because Our
      1. Sergey Averchenkov 18 March 2023 05: 12
        
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        Sorry. You need to write in more detail, a lot of misunderstandings occur due to the fact that it seems that I wrote everything clearly (for myself) ... it seems to me so ... but people are different, someone did not understand or did not understand correctly. I felt it myself - I wrote it seems to be correct, but they understood me completely in the opposite direction. And it still exists.
4. dnestr74 17 March 2023 22: 10
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  Do not hysteria ... The flanks are held by regular units ... PR is needed - to recruit attack aircraft. Few are now able to fight like that, the Wagners teach and if you are there, match
5. Alister kroulegg 17 March 2023 22: 46
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  What do you think yourself, why are Wagner and the Donetsk corps thrown into the inferno, and not mobilized, for example, or other parts of the Moscow Region? Because they don't care. This is the only explanation
  1. Orange Bigg 17 March 2023 22: 54
    
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    Quote: Alister Kroulegg
    What do you think yourself, why are Wagner and the Donetsk corps thrown into the inferno, and not mobilized, for example, or other parts of the Moscow Region? Because they don't care. This is the only explanation
    
    That is, in your opinion, only those who are not sorry are sent to fight? And those who are not sent to fight, it’s a pity? Or maybe those who know how to do it better just fight in the most difficult areas.
6. Sergey79 18 March 2023 15: 17
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  Have you been there? If not, then there is no need to carry a blizzard ....
tihonmarine 17 March 2023 20: 58
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In Artemovsk, the heaviest battles are currently going on compared to all other sectors of the front.

From Artyomovsk they report that the road between Khromov and Chasovy Yar is currently under heavy artillery fire from the Wagner PMC. According to the Military Chronicle (TG), several platoons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to break out of the encirclement in Chasov Yar on light vehicles, but were detected by drones and covered by fire from 152 mm Giacint-S guns.
According to preliminary data, due to heavy shelling, a convoy of eight Ukrainian pickup trucks got stuck in the area of the cemetery and was forced to turn into the area of neighboring Bogdanovka.
1. Egoza 17 March 2023 21: 08
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  due to heavy shelling, a convoy of eight Ukrainian pickup trucks got stuck in the area of the cemetery and was forced to turn into the area of neighboring Bogdanovka.
  
  So why did they turn? That's a direct move to the cemetery and would have moved!
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    due to heavy shelling, a convoy of eight Ukrainian pickup trucks got stuck in the area of the cemetery and was forced to turn into the area of neighboring Bogdanovka.
    
    So why did they turn? That's a direct move to the cemetery and would have moved!
    
    Everyone will be there in this cauldron .. A terrible slaughter is Elena going on there. But there’s no other way, after all, for 9 years we hoped that we would agree .. But the devils-suliaks have even begun to smash our temples ..
    This is all
2. Rumata 17 March 2023 21: 44
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  was forced to turn to the area of neighboring Bogdanovka.
  
  Too bad she survived. If there were enough Lancets, no one would turn onto Bogdanovka alive.
UAZ 452 17 March 2023 21: 22
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Since August, 70% of the territory has been liberated. If we extrapolate, then by mid-summer they should be released completely. If it works out, we can do it in less than a year.
And what about Marinka? About two months ago, they also printed daily: 50%, 60% ... And then it cut off. And Ugledar quietly disappeared from the reports. Is the attack over?
1. Kronos 17 March 2023 21: 30
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  Yes, Maryinka and Ugledar were never taken.
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    Nothing .... Let's take it ... We have nowhere to rush, the purpose of the operation is denazification, and they themselves are on us with a rod and a rod, why go somewhere if they go into their own hands ... And when the Nazis end, we will go through a column to the Polish border , and Ukrainian women will greet Russian liberators from the Nazis with flowers ...
2. Rumata 17 March 2023 21: 47
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  If we extrapolate, then by mid-summer they should be released completely.
  
  Last summer, all commentators and experts kept saying that a general battle for the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration was about to come. What happened next we already know.
3. Grits 18 March 2023 09: 58
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  And what about Marinka? About two months ago, they also printed daily: 50%, 60% ... And then it cut off. And Ugledar quietly disappeared from the reports. Is the attack over?
  
  Something suspiciously begins to resemble the summer of last year. What happened next, we all remember.
Grandfather Fichteau 17 March 2023 22: 10
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Russian troops control up to 70 percent of the territory of Artemovsk

Well done, of course, but the main thing is to wet and not release the Natsiks and mercenaries!
And 333 day and night in all directions
The main thing now is denazification!!!
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Good news. The main thing is to avoid possible counterattacks and continue to punish the withdrawal of Ukrainians and their supply routes by secondary routes so that they continue to lose materiel and troops.
tolmachiev51 18 March 2023 03: 39
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Mariupol, Artemovsk ....- when will we remember Avdiivka!? The year of the SVO, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Donetsk and methodically fired.
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And so what?! At least 170% !!! For the Armed Forces of Ukraine, this is just a very convenient ONE OF THE positions, although strategically Bakhmut DOES NOT HAVE any value! The main lines are along the Druzhkovka-Konstantinovka-Slavyansk line. and it will be so) the strongest assault units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, it will only be stunned by how impregnable it will become (they can’t take tiny Avdiivka, what can we say for larger cities?) The last line of defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Don. region is the third line. In short , dry the oars and listen to the Chinese! No wonder Xi will come. He has been waiting for the result for a year (Karl, a whole year !!!) and this "zilch" has already tired him, like a hike.