Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of Wagner’s mercenary group, announced on Saturday that Russian troops were in full control of the eastern Ukrainian town of Bakhmut, the site of one of the bloodiest battles since Russia invaded Ukraine, Reuters reported.
The agency was unable to confirm from independent sources Prigozhin’s statement, which was denied by the spokesman of the Ukrainian army, Serhiy Chervaty. The latter was categorical: “This is not true. Our units are fighting near Bakhmut.”
Prigozhin appeared on the video in combat uniform in front of a formation of militants with the flags of the Russian Federation and Wagner, and to the sounds of distant explosions, he declared that “today at 12:00 Bakhmut was completely captured” and that “I conquered the whole city, house by house.”
He added that next Thursday the mercenaries under his command were to withdraw from their positions in Bakhmut to recuperate and rest.
Be suspicious. Prigozhin says that Wagner’s forces established complete control of Bakhmut after a bloody siege that nearly destroyed the city.
His proclamation of triumph is a long fiction that Shoigu and Gerasimov didn’t help, and Wagner mostly did it on his own pic.twitter.com/CVxrQY6p9R
— max seddon (@maxseddon) May 20, 2023
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