Russia’s Wagner claim control of ‘eastern part’ of Bakhmut FMTNews FMTWorld
MOSCOW: The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group said today that his forces had taken “all the eastern part” of Bakhmut, the east Ukrainian town where fighting has raged for weeks.
“Wagner units have taken all the eastern part of Bakhmut, all that’s east of the Bakhmutka river” that bisects the town, Wagner chief and Kremlin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin said in an audio message released by his press service. Pressure has been mounting on Ukrainian troops trying to hold the town against Russian soldiers hoping to capture it no matter the cost.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has said the army was intent on defending Bakhmut but warned the Russian army would have an “open road” into eastern Ukraine if it captured the town. The battle for Bakhmut, a salt-mining town with a population of 80,000 before the fighting began, has been the longest and bloodiest in Russia’s operation, which has devastated swathes of Ukraine and displaced millions over the past year.
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