Wagner group: No signs of Ukrainian forces leaving eastern city
Ukrainian servicemen ride on a Dutch armoured personnel carrier near Bakhmut on April 6th, 2023. Photograph: GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty ImagesRussia appears to have made important gains in Bakhmut, the British Ministry of Defence said.
The ministry said in its daily update that Russian forces have “highly likely advanced into the [Bakhmut] town centre, and has seized the West Bank of the Bakhmutka River. Ukraine’s key supply route to the west of the town is likely severely threatened.” It adds there is the “realistic possibility that, locally, Wagner and Russian MoD commanders have paused their ongoing feud and improved co-operation”.
The head of Russia’s private Wagner militia group has said there are no signs of Ukrainian forces leaving Bakhmut, however, and that fighting continues to rage on in the western part of Ukraine’s eastern city.
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