Russia's Wagner group has taken full control of the eastern part of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Wednesday.
In a separate video posted on his Telegram channel later on Wednesday, standing in front of a tank with explosions raging in the background, Prigozhin called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to "take the old people and children" out of the battered city.
Russian forces have been trying to seize Bakhmut for months in what has become possibly the bloodiest battle of the year-long war. If Russian forces do capture the city it will become their first significant territorial gain since last summer.on Tuesday the seizure of Bakhmut would seriously weaken Ukraine's defences and allow Russia to mount further offensives across the Donbas - the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk which Russia says it is fighting to "liberate".
U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin downplayed the strategic importance of the city on Monday, saying its capture would represent only aZelenskiy has said Ukraine will continue fighting for Bakhmut amid talk of a possible Ukrainian withdrawal. Prigozhin said on Tuesday he saw no signs Ukraine was pulling its forces out of the city.Our Standards:
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