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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      • BeamBrain [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        What's funny is how easy this is to debunk. Go to Google Maps, pick any podunk-ass village in Russia, open photos, and you'll see asphalt roads.

        What's sad is how many people will believe it anyway.

        • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Some guy made a twitter thread cataloging like every single village he could find with mud and dirt roads to pass off as indicative of every village outside major metropolitan cities. Somehow he missed the memo where dirt roads are a characterization of rural America and country singers are very proud to tell you all about driving down them in their trucks. That only happens in backward and barbaric asiatic countries