– Today, at 12 o’clock, Bakhmut was completely conquered. We took the whole city, house by house, says Prigozhin in a video message in which he appears together with a group of soldiers with Russian flags and banners with Wagner’s symbol. The sound of explosions can be heard in the distance on the video. No independent sources confirm the claim made by the Wagner Group’s leader. The statement comes a day after Prigozhin said an imminent capture of Bakhmut was unlikely. Ukraine: – The situation is critical Ukraine’s deputy defense minister Hanna Maliar writes for her part that the fighting is still going on: “Heavy fighting in Bakhmut. The situation is critical,” writes Maliar on Telegram. The Financial Times’ correspondent Christopher Miller writes on Twitter that he has spoken with Ukraine’s spokesperson for the Eastern Front, Serhiy Cherevaty. According to him, Russian forces are in control of most of Bakhmut, but not the entire city. “The fighting is still going on in Tchaikovskoho street and a handful of streets in the west and northwest. Wagner does not yet have full control,” writes Miller.
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