“We hoisted the Russian flag with the inscription ‘Good memory to Vladlen #Tatarsky’ and the flag of PMC Wagner on top of the city administration of Bakhmut,” Prigozhin said in the clip. Evgeny Prigozhin dedicated the “formal” seizure of the key Donbass city to a killed Donbass-born Russian war blogger.

“Legally speaking, Bakhmut is taken. The enemy is concentrated in the western districts,” the head of the PMC added.

The battle for #Artyomovsk/ #Bakhmut has emerged as one of the most intensive and bloody engagements of the armed conflict in #Ukraine, with both sides reportedly suffering significant casualties. Western officials have claimed that the city poses no strategic military value, but Kiev Regime head Vladimir Zelensky pledged to defend it as long as possible after proclaiming the city a fortress.

Kiev’s attempts to cling onto Bakhmut, regardless of the losses, has “almost destroyed the Ukrainian army,” Prigozhin claimed earlier this week. However, Wagner fighters, who led the charge to capture the city, also took “a serious beating,” he acknowledged.

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