Russia’s Wagner group claims control of Bakhmut in Ukraine – BBC News

The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group says he has raised a Russian flag over Bakhmut's city hall in Ukraine.

In a video, Yevgeny Prigozhin said Bakhmut was now Russian "in a legal sense,” but he admitted Ukrainian forces were still concentrated in western districts.

Ukraine has insisted its army still holds Bakhmut.

Meanwhile, Russian investigators have detained a woman in the hunt for the killers of a pro-war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky in a blast at a St Petersburg cafe.

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