The withdrawal of Wagner units from the city of Bakhmut begins. The head of Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, claims this in a video posted on Telegram. The video shows Prigozhin standing next to a tank shaking hands with a group of men. The announcement of the start of the withdrawal follows Prigozhin’s announcement that the Wagner Group lost over 20,000 fighters in the long battle for the city of Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Russian and Ukrainian forces suffered huge losses and satellite images of the city show the extent of the devastation left by the fighting.
Confirming full control over the city after more than 7 months of fighting, Prigozhin last Saturday specified that the mercenaries would leave Bakhmut on the 25th “to rest”, underlining that the city would be transferred to the control of the Russian Defense Ministry. «We are withdrawing units from Bakhmut – he says in the video according to Ukrainian media reports – By June 1, most of them will be transferred to the rear. We are handing over the positions to the military, as well as ammunition, everything, including meals”.
Source: IL Tempo

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