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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AFAIK this is one of those rare times that Russian and Ukrainian sources kind of line up. The only people I've seen claiming Ukrainian success are NAFO idiots.
I wasn't disputing it stopped I was responding to your point a bout high Ukrainian losses. It's basically a meme at this point for Russia to claim they kill 20 million ukrainian soldiers any time anything happens. Also who knows what the goals were of these attacks. They succeeded in retaking a lot of the heights to the west of Bakhmut.