2023-05-20 13:41:53
According to their own statements, the Russian mercenary group Wagner has taken full control of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, which has been fought over for weeks. Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin shared this in a video on Saturday. Ukraine disagreed. Ukrainian soldiers continued to fight in Bakhmut, the senior staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces responsible for eastern Ukraine said on Saturday.
“Today, at 12 noon, Bakhmut was completely captured,” Prigozhin said earlier in the video. The head of the mercenary group announced that the city would be handed over to the Russian military. The Wagner forces will be withdrawing from the city from May 25, he says.
Ukraine has been defending itself against the Russian incursion for more than 14 months. The city of Bakhmut in Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, which once had a population of more than 70,000, has been the focus of fighting for months. The battle for the city, which is now primarily symbolically important, is the bloodiest and longest of the war so far.
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