In this photo released by the Prigozhin press service, Yevgeny Prigozhin (centre), head of the military company Wagner Group, speaks to his soldiers holding a Russian national flag.
(Photo: dpa)
Vienna Duplicate questions can lead to confusion: Volodymyr Zelensky answered “I don’t think so” on the sidelines of the G7 summit when a journalist asked him whether Bakhmut was still in Ukrainian hands or whether the Russians had conquered the city. Some media initially took this as confirmation that the eastern Ukrainian city had been taken, which the President’s office later denied. Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrated the capture of Bakhmut on Saturday.
However, it is undisputed that the Ukrainians have practically withdrawn from the entire city area after almost ten months of fighting. In the past few weeks, they have only held a few high-rise buildings on the western outskirts of the city.
On Saturday it was said from Kiev that they had withdrawn to an industrial zone. For his part, Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed in a video that his paramilitaries had already conquered Bakhmut “house by house”.
Bachmut has become a symbol of struggle
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