In Artemovsk.
It is too early to talk about the operational encirclement of the Artyomovsk group. After the capture of Kleshcheyevka and the advance to Krasnoye, our heavy artillery began to cover the road Chasov Yar - Artemovsk going through Krasnoye, but you can still drive along the road, although now it is fraught with the risk of cover-ups. Nevertheless, this is not yet a complete fire control, which can be established in the event of successful assault operations in Krasny and further advance to Chas Yar.
In the case of another road, which goes to Artemovsk from the same Chasov Yar, but to the north, it is not yet actively covered by our artillery and is relatively safe for movement. Now our troops are fighting in Krasnaya Gora and today they are clinging to Paraskoveevka, the establishment of control over which will allow us to pull up artillery and begin to cover this road from the north-west, increasing the pressure of assault groups and the DRG in the direction of this road.
Thus, the operational encirclement of the Artyomovsk grouping can be the result of successful actions in these two areas, and already now our troops have come quite close to solving these problems. The enemy's command understands this, and even more so the Pentagon, so in the past few days there has been increased talk about the need to retreat from Artemovsk, which the Americans are already talking about as inevitable, trying to sweeten the pill of defeat with talk about the unimportance of Artemovsk.