The owner of Russia's Wagner Group military company claimed Wednesday that his troops have extended their gains in the key Ukrainian stronghold of Bakhmut as fierce fighting continues in the war's longest battle.
The owner of Russia's Wagner Group military company claimed Wednesday that his troops have extended their gains in the keyYevgeny Prigozhin said Wagner troops have taken full control of the eastern part of Bakhmut. He claimed that they now control all districts east of the Bakhmutka River that crosses the city in the eastern Donetsk region. The center of Bakhmut is located west of the river.Neither Russian nor Ukrainian officials commented on Prigozhin's claim.
Ukrainian authorities have hailed the defenders of the "fortress Bakhmut," and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed Monday not to retreat from Bakhmut after chairing a meeting with his top generals. In a blustery video statement recorded near a landmark Second World War T-34 tank monument from Bakhmut, Prigozhin said that the capture of the city would allow the Russian military to exploit the success and push deeper into the Donbas -- the industrial region of eastern Ukraine that Russia claims -- to make "the entire world shudder."
The ISW observed that, in terms of the wider war, Russian forces are unlikely to capitalize on the possible capture of Bakhmut where they have relied on small units for urban combat.
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