MOSCOW, March 17. /TASS/. Russian forces currently control up to 70% of the territory of the city of Artemovsk (Ukrainian name – Bakhmut) in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR).

This was announced on Friday by the adviser to the acting head of the DPR, Jan Gagin.
“If we talk about Artemovsk, our forces now control about 60%, maybe even more – up to 70% of the city itself,” he said on the TV channel. “Russia 24”.