{"id":306341,"date":"2023-04-18T16:58:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T13:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=306341"},"modified":"2023-04-18T16:58:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T13:58:24","slug":"russian-forces-control-almost-all-of-artyomovsk-says-dpr-heads-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=306341","title":{"rendered":"Russian forces control almost all of Artyomovsk, says DPR head\u2019s advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Donetsk, SANA &#8211; Russian forces have taken control of almost 90% of the city of Artyomovsk (called Bakhmut in Ukraine), TASS cited Yan Gagin, an advisor to the Donetsk People\u2019s Republic\u2019s (DPR) leader, as saying on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Wagner private military company controls about 90% of Artyomovsk and its advance is inevitable,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wagner PMC founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said on April 11 that Russian forces controlled more than 80% of Artyomovsk, including all administrative buildings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gagin specified that Ukrainian troops were booby-trapping and blowing up major infrastructure facilities before leaving the western outskirts of Artyomovsk. &#8220;The Ukrainian armed forces are okay with using scorched earth tactics. This is what they did in Volnovakha and Mariupol, and now, they are blowing up and booby-trapping major infrastructure facilities in Artyomovsk before retreating from the western outskirts of the city. A local community center was one of the buildings that they blew up recently,&#8221; Gagin noted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source : TASS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donetsk, SANA &#8211; Russian forces have taken control of almost 90% of the city of Artyomovsk (called Bakhmut in Ukraine), TASS cited Yan Gagin, an advisor to the Donetsk People\u2019s Republic\u2019s (DPR) leader, as saying on Tuesday. &#8220;The Wagner private military company controls about 90% of Artyomovsk and its advance is inevitable,&#8221; he said. Wagner &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":306342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6987],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/306342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}