Wagner Group announces the start of its withdrawal from Bakhmut and the transfer of its positions to Russian troops

The Government of Ukraine assured today that the units of the group of mercenaries Wagner They have been replaced by regular Russian troops in the suburbs of Bakhmut, after the head of the Russian private military company announced the start of handing over their positions to the army.

“In the Bakhmut suburbs, the enemy has replaced Wagner units with units of the regular army,” said Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar, who added that “the Wagnerites” continue to be present inside this city in eastern Ukraine devastated by months of heavy fighting.

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The head of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhindeclared on May 21 that its fighters had fulfilled their mission to completely take over Bakhmut and announced that they would withdraw from Bakhmut to hand over control of the city to the Russian army.

kyiv, for its part, He has assured that his troops are resisting in some areas of the city.

Regarding the alleged Ukrainian holdouts that would remain in the municipality, Malyar said that “our troops control the outskirts of the city in the southwestern part of the Litak district,” the name of one of the neighborhoods where Ukrainian forces have put up resistance.

According to Kiev’s deputy defense minister, Russian forces “try to stop with artillery” the advance “on the flanks” of Bakhmut, where Ukrainian troops have driven the Russians back several kilometers in recent days.

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“The enemy is deploying additional reinforcing units on the flanks.” Malyar also said, who in previous statements raised the possibility that the Russian troops that control all or almost all of the city of Bakhmut are exposed to Ukrainian fire from the surroundings of the municipality.

The Ukrainian deputy minister also reported Russian attacks “repelled” by Ukrainian forces in the Avdiivka and Mariinka areas, located as Bakhmut on the eastern front.

Malyar also spoke of “fighting” in Kupiansk, where the Russians “suffer casualties” in their “attempt to capture a bridgehead to continue advancing.”

Source: Elcomercio

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