ATO forces are trying to push the militias away from the “road of life” for the Ukrainian military trapped in Debaltseve
Kyiv - Debaltsevo, February 10 (PolitNavigator, Alexandra Ignatieva) - ATO forces are currently conducting a special operation to block the militias on the Debaltsevo-Artemovsk highway
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Speaker of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Vladislav Seleznev announced this at a briefing, Espreso.TV reports.
“Right now the situation remains tense,” he said. According to him, additional units have been sent there to conduct a special operation to block and destroy the militias.
In turn, ATO speaker Anatoly Stelmakh said that at night the militias intensified their assault on Ukrainian positions in the ATO zone, and a battle took place near Debaltsevo.
As PolitNavigator reported, earlier the DPR announced an unsuccessful attempt by the Ukrainian security forces to unblock the route to Artemovsk, along which the troops trapped near Debaltseve were being supplied.