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Ukraine rejects claim, says heavy fighting continues in the city and describes the situation there as ‘critical’.

Kyiv rejects Yevgeny Prigozhin’s claim to have captured Bakhmut and says fighting continues

The battle for the small city of Bakhmut in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region has become the longest and bloodiest of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Russia claimed on Saturday to have fully captured the smashed eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, which would mark an end to the longest and bloodiest battle of the 15-month war.

The head of the Russian private army Wagner claims his forces have taken control of the city of Bakhmut after the longest and most grinding battle of the Russia-Ukraine war, but Ukrainian defense officials have denied it

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Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Saturday his Wagner fighters had completed the capture of Bakhmut, but Ukraine rejected the claim and said fighting was still going on.

Russia has been left with few uncommitted combat units in Ukraine as it seeks to reinforce its position in Bakhmut, British defence chiefs say.

The head of the Wagner Group has admitted his private mercenary group won’t be able to take Bakhmut in the coming days despite months of fighting.

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Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Friday that the city of Bakhmut was unlikely to fall to his mercenary forces in the next two days as fighting raged around Ukrainian soldiers holed up in a makeshift "fortress" in the south of the city.