Bakhmut left in ruins after months of struggle with Russia | US-TODAY.NET

Months of struggle between Russia and Ukraine have left town of Bakhmut devastated and nearly uninhabited.

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Confusion over the standing of Bakhmut intensified Monday when the chief of Russia’s Wagner Group stated his mercenary forces will go away the battered japanese Ukrainian metropolis by month’s finish and advised the Russian Protection Ministry ship its generals to carry town.

Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin has till now repeatedly criticized the Protection Ministry as inept and accused its leaders of failing to regulate territory seized by Wagner troops. His announcement comes after he and the ministry claimed Saturday that Bakhmut “was fully taken” after a number of months of intense preventing.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared to substantiate the declare Sunday, however later his workplace stated its army continues to regulate a small a part of town. On Monday, Deputy Ukrainian Protection Minister Hanna Maliar stated Ukraine troops occupy the hills to the north and south and are starting to encircle Bakhmut.

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