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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. There are no two or three interpretations of those words, » he said while attending the G7 in Japan on Sunday.
