Evguéni Prigojine, boss of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, claimed responsibility for his men’s capture of the village of Yaguidné, located on the northern outskirts of Bagmouth, on Saturday. A city that troops from Moscow are trying to take from the summer.
Yagidné was captured, and the Russian stranglehold around Bagmouth, a village located less than two kilometers from the center of this fortified city, is of disputed strategic importance, but has become a symbol of the struggle for control of the region. In eastern Ukraine.
“At 7 p.m. on February 25, Wagner’s assault units took full control of the village of Yakidne, north of Bagmouth,” Prigozhin was quoted as saying by his Telegram news service.
A photo on the Telegram account shows armed and masked men with a Wagner flag in front of the entrance sign to Yakutne village.
kyiv would have blown up a dam
According to Wagner’s press service, quoted by TASS, Ukrainian troops blew up an embankment near Bachmout to slow the advance of Russian forces.
“In fact, the Ukrainian armed forces blew up the dam,” the press service said, which is a dam on Lake Bivnivchny, located west of Bagmouth. These claims were not immediately verified by an independent source.
Wagner-Russian military tensions
Russian forces have been trying to encircle Baghmouth for weeks and have succeeded in cutting off several important supply lines for Ukrainian troops.
On Friday, Wagner’s group said it had captured Perkivka, north of Bagmouth, and Paraskowivka last week, on the front lines of the battle.
Tensions have risen in recent weeks between the paramilitary group and the Russian military, which Prigozhin has accused of not providing him with the ammunition he needs.
This article was published automatically. Sources: ats / afp
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