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Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said Sunday that his forces will leave the front line in eastern Ukraine in the coming days after “capturing all the territories they promised to capture, to the last square centimeter.”
It comes a day after Prigozhin claimed that his mercenary fighters had completely seized the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut — a statement met with counterclaims from Ukraine.
While CNN cannot independently verify battlefield accounts, here’s what the wartime officials are saying:
Zelensky’s denial: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says his soldiers are still in Bakhmut, despite what Prigozhin says. “Bakhmut is not occupied by Russian Federation as of today.
