Prigozhin's fighters have been heavily involved in operations to take control of the city of Bakhmut, which has been under intense bombardment for months.
fighters may have progressed through eastern and northeastern Bakhmut to create this"tactically challenging turning movement in urban areas" in the north of the city.
This is a change from encirclement of the city, which the ISW and the British defense ministry previously evaluated as the Russian strategy. On Sunday, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said Russia was attempting to"surround" Bakhmut, but Kyiv's forces had fended off the attacks. On Saturday, the British defense ministry said Bakhmut was under"increasingly severe pressure," and Ukraine's resupply routes were becoming. Kyiv had sent in elite units to back up its fighters in the city, the ministry added.
The remaining residents of Bakhmut are now fleeing on foot, the Associated Press reported on Saturday. The city had a pre-war population of around 75,000 people.
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