Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin contradicted a statement that he made earlier about a Russian victory in Bakhmut shortly after the Ukrainian military dismissed his claims.
The leader of the Kremlin-backed mercenary group said on Sunday that Bakhmut, which has been the site of months-long intense battle between Russian and Ukrainian forces, is “de jure taken” and that Ukrainian troops were “concentrated in the western area” of the city, The Kyiv Independent reported.
On Thursday, Prigozhin said through his press service on Telegram that “the enemy (Ukraine) is not going anywhere [from Bakhmut].”
“They organized defense inside the city, first by rail, then in the area of ​​high-rise buildings in the western district of the city,” he said, adding that “for the time being, I think there is no talk of any offensive.”
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