Wagner in Bakhmout. On the Bakhmout front, the epicenter of the fighting in the Donbass, Evguéni Prigojine, the boss of the paramilitary group Wagner, claimed a new progression of his men who are fighting there on the front line. The latter said that the Russians are currently just over a kilometer from the center of Bakhmout, a city that Moscow troops have been trying to take since the summer.
“It is the building of the municipal administration, the administrative center of the city”he said in a video released by the press service of his company Concord, pointing from the roof of a building to another building in what he said was Bakhmout. “It’s 1.2 km away […] This is the area, there are fights going on”he specified.