Grim footage shows Yevgeny Prigozhin visiting basement filled with dead fighters near Ukraine’s eastern front
The head of the Russian Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has said his fighters have sometimes spent weeks attempting to capture a single house in the key contested Donbas city of Bakhmut, in the latest evidence of how the Kremlin’s efforts there have stalled.
“Their contract has finished, they will go home next week,” Prigozhin can be heard saying, adding: “These are getting ready to be sent. We all work during New Year’s Eve. In a second clip of footage from his visit to the eastern front, Prigozhin confirmed the difficulties his forces were encountering. “Everyone wants to know when we will capture [Bakhmut],” he explains, using the Russian name for the city, Artemovsk.
In separate footage from Bakhmut filmed on 2 January, a Ukrainian soldier named Kiyanyn describes the continuing combat. Amid the sound of shelling, he describes how fighters in his sector of the city have repelled several large-scale attacks against the city he calls “the fortress”.
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