Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Regarding the pretentious crap spread since yesterday about the fact that "PMC Wagner broke through the defense and entered Artemovsk."
1. PMC "Wagner" did not break through any defense. PMC "Wagner" pushes through the enemy's defenses in Opytnoye, on the outskirts of Kleshcheevka, near Podgorodny. There are no significant breakthroughs, taking into account the saturation of the enemy's reserves of the front line, there are no - there is a pushing and grinding. This is the essence of the battles going on there.
2. In Artemovsk "after breaking through the defense" PMC "Wagner" could not go in any way, because PMC "Wagner" has been sitting in Artemovsk since the end of summer, first in the industrial zone on Patrice Lumumba Street, and then in houses on the southeastern outskirts Artemovsk, where we went in December. So we entered Artemovsk a long time ago.
3. Our troops as a whole have the operational initiative in the Artyomovsky direction, but the time has not yet come to throw caps into the air.
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Video from the Artyomovsky direction (last night Prigozhin drove along the front there)
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More from the Russian Ministry of Defense via Rozhin:
Revival of the Red Star.
The Russian Ministry of Defense has introduced and has already begun to award a new medal - "Participant in a special military operation." The medal belongs to the departmental and assigns the status of the participant of the SVO to the awarded.
It can also be given to civilians.
The front side of the medal depicts the Order of the Red Star (existed since 1930) - a Soviet award that was highly respected. The Order of the Red Star was awarded for great merits in the defense of the country, for ensuring state security, both in wartime and in peacetime.
The medal clearly indicates the continuity of the award - and rightly so, the connection between generations must be maintained.
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