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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that would be pretty funny if they fell for that trap. shit at this point Russia should be like "yea let them think we are fighting only with shovels."
"Bellingcat was right, we ran out of shells 1 month after the start of hostilities. All those explosions around you are in your head, feel free to leave your trench and walk around, that would really own us."