Ukraine gives no indication it is withdrawing from Bakhmut, where months of warfare have been among the deadliest and most destructive since Russia invaded
The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group said on Wednesday his forces had taken full control of the eastern part of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, scene of one of the bloodiest battles of the year-long war.
“Everything east of the Bakhmutka River is completely under the control of Wagner,” Prigozhin said on Telegram. “The main task of our troops in Bakhmut is to grind the enemy’s fighting capability, to bleed their combat potential,” Serhiy Cherevatyi, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s eastern military command, told public television on Tuesday.
The months of warfare there have been among the deadliest and most destructive since Russia invaded in February last year, adding Bakhmut’s name to a list of devastated cities such as Mariupol, Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk.
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