Russia’s Wagner Group mercenaries, led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, claimed full capture of Bakhmut Saturday afternoon. See potential bias and similarities in coverage from dcexaminer, reuters, and AP:
Wagner and state forces for the capture. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a Ukrainian spokesperson then offered mixed messaging.Zelenskyy, speaking at the G7 Summit, “Bakhmut is only in our hearts” and that the Russians destroyed “everything.” The spokesperson later clarified, “The president denied the capture of Bakhmut.” Prigozhin said, “Today, at 12 noon, Bakhmut was completely taken.
with The Kremlin, added, “We fought not only with the Ukrainian armed forces in Bakhmut. We fought the Russian bureaucracy, which threw sand in the wheels.”Bakhmut has been one of the longest and bloodiest battles in Ukraine. It has become a symbolic battle for Russia, although Western experts, like The Institute for the Study of War, dispute the utility of the city’s capture.
Outlets across the spectrum covered the events similarly. Headlines varied, highlighting Russia’s claims, Zelenskyy’s comments, and his spokesperson’s clarification, though they did not appear to correlate with biases.
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