The advance came after the Ukrainian President ordered his military to reinforce, rather than withdraw from the region
Russian forces appeared to be in control of the eastern half of Bakhmut on Wednesday, and the head of the NATO military alliance said the city could “fall in the coming days.”
In a sign that Wagner’s control over the area is far from assured, two fighters kept watch behind Mr. Prigozhin, repeatedly peering west towards the far side of the river as Mr. Prigozhin spoke from behind the cover of the tank statue. The lighting suggested the video was filmed just before dawn. On Wednesday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg sounded a pessimistic note about the course of the battle. “What we see is that Russia is throwing in more troops, more forces. What Russia lacks in quality they try to make up in quantity,” he told reporters in Stockholm. “They have suffered big losses, but at the same time we cannot rule out that Bakhmut may eventually fall in the coming days.
On Tuesday, the Ukrainian military tentatively identified the victim as Timofey Shadura, a 40-year-old member of the 30th Mechanized Regiment. A native of the central Zhytomyr region, he had joined the army in December and had gone missing near Bakhmut on Feb. 3.
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