Pledge to hand over Bakhmut to Russia

Ukraine war: Wagner Group pledges to hand over Bakhmut to Russia

      The head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has expressed his determination to hand over the control of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut to the Russian army by June 1.

        Eugenie Preuzon claimed control of Bakhmut on Saturday, but Kiu says it still controls parts of the city.


         Ukraine says its troops are still advancing on the outskirts of Bakhmut.

But Yevgeny Prigozhin said his troops would begin handing over the city to the Russian army from Thursday. "Wagner will leave Artemysk from May 25 to June 1," Pregozhon said in an audio recording on Telegram. Bakhmut was known as Artemysk in honor of the Soviet revolution and was later renamed by Ukraine.


          He said Wagner had set up "defensive lines" in the west of the city before the transfer. But Ukraine's deputy defense minister, Hanna Miliar, reiterated that her forces were still making inroads into the city and advancing into the suburbs, adding that the "intensity" of their movements ' has decreased.



        Wagner's mercenaries have been concentrating their efforts on the city for months, and their relentless, expensive tactics of constantly sending in troops have slowly eroded Qiu's resistance.

        Speaking at the G7 summit in Japan on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky insisted that Russia "does not occupy" Bakhmut. Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Wagner.

        Eugenie Prigogne puts her reputation and that of her private army on the line to capture the city.

He has repeatedly targeted senior Russian military officials and publicly criticized them for not supporting their troops. Last month, they also threatened to pull their troops out of the city if they were not provided with much-needed ammunition.

         The capture of Bakhmut would bring Russia a little closer to its goal of controlling the entire Donetsk region, one of four regions in eastern and southern Ukraine that Russia ceded to Russia after a referendum last September. What the annexation was, it was widely condemned outside.

       However, when Russia fought a fierce battle for control of the cities of Donetsk and Lyashnik last summer, Ukraine quickly reclaimed the other largest part.

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