Wagner’s mercenary group has taken full control of the city of Bakhmut in the east of the country, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the paramilitary group, said on Wednesday, Reuters reports.

“Units of the Wagner private military company took control of the eastern part of Bakhmut,” Prigozhin said in an audio recording on the Telegram channel of his press service.

“Everything east of the Bakhmutka River is completely under Wagner’s control,” says Wagner’s boss.

Reuters could not independently verify the information. Prigozhin also repeatedly stated that his mercenaries were successful, but this information was not confirmed.

According to Prigozhin’s estimates on Tuesday, between 12,000 and 20,000 Ukrainian soldiers are fighting in the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, which is fiercely resisting Russian troops, EFE and Agerpres reported.

Fierce battles are taking place there “day and night”, “Ukrainians are not running away”, Prigozhin said in a message sent by his press service.

“Zelenskyi’s people do not stop, they throw thousands and thousands more into the meat grinder,” he adds, still expressing his “admiration” for the Ukrainian soldiers who “die en masse for Bakhmut and surrender only as a last resort.” “Stop saying they are cowards! They are the same as us, they have the same blood,” the Wagner leader also wrote about the Ukrainian soldiers.

Prigozhin also says that the Russian troops in Bakhmut feel the “fury” of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, whose troops do not lack weapons and ammunition, and Wagner’s fighters still do not receive ammunition, weapons, equipment and ammunition from Moscow. the military equipment they need.

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