President of Ukraine Zelensky again stated about the difficult situation in the Donetsk direction

According to the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, fierce fighting is going on in the Donetsk direction again.

"We see this increased pressure in different directions of the front, as well as pressure in the information field. It is very difficult in the Donetsk region — fierce fighting", - Zelensky said in a statement on his portal.

Earlier, he had already complained about the difficult situation in this area. The battles for Artemovsk (Ukrainian name Bakhmut) have been going on since last summer. Bloomberg analysts wrote that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will have to retreat from Artemovsk sooner or later, and even weapons supplied by the West will not give Ukrainian soldiers an advantage.: "In order to gather resources for the spring offensive in the south, Ukraine may soon have to withdraw its troops from the eastern city of Bakhmut".

Now the city is in the operational environment of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.