Yevgeny Prigozhin said Thursday that although the 'Ukrainian army is working clearly and harmoniously,' Bakhmut 'will be captured.'
Prigozhin acknowledged the performance of Ukrainian troops in the Bakhmut battle in a statement published by his press service on Thursday, according to the"The Ukrainian army is working clearly and harmoniously. We have a lot to learn from them," Prigozhin said. He added that Bakhmut"will be captured."
A Ukrainian soldier stands guard in a liberated town previously occupied by Russian forces on January 13 in Buhaivka, Ukraine. In inset, Yevgeny Prigozhin attends a meeting with foreign investors at Konstantin Palace on June 16, 2016, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Prigozhin said Thursday that his Wagner Group forces can take some notes from Ukrainian troops amid the ongoing war.Vladimir Putin
that his war in Ukraine has not been going completely to plan have been rare. Last month, Putin acknowledged that the situation in Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions—all four of which were declared as annexed by Russia last year despite international outcry—was"extremely difficult," Insider reported.
But earlier this week, Putin insisted during an interview that his"special military operation" in Ukraine"The dynamics are positive," Putin said during the interview."Everything is developing within the plan of the Defense Ministry and the General Staff. And I hope that our fighters will please us more than once again with the results of their combat work."
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