The head of the Russian private army Wagner has said his fighters have completed the capture of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, but Kyiv immediately rejected the claim and said fighting was still going on.
Yevgeny Prigozhin made the claim in a video on Saturday in which he appeared in combat fatigues in front of a line of fighters holding Russian flags and Wagner banners.
“Today, at 12 noon, Bakhmut was completely taken,” Prigozhin said. “We completely took the whole city, from house to house.
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everyone thought wagner ate shit but apparently it was all japes and fog of war, honestly i don't know anymore. there's no point in keeping up with the war because the readily available information is literally all propaganda from either side. this new breakthrough seems reliable because ukraine press is in full damage control tho
"Great part of the information obtained in War is contradictory, a still greater part is false, and by far the greatest part is of a doubtful character."