Russia’s Wagner leader claims to have captured area near Bakhmut

THE leader of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner said today that his troops had taken an eastern Ukrainian village a few kilometres from the key city of Bakhmut which Moscow has been trying to capture for months.

“Today, Wagner’s assault units took the town of Krasna Hora,” Wagner’s chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a statement.

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