Bakhmut

'God Bless Putin, Wagner': WATCH Pro-Russia 'Aussie Cossacks' celebrate Bakhmut's 'liberation'

In the video one can hear the crowd chanting, 'We salute the Russian Wagner Group, We salute the Russian Military. We congratulate you on liberating the city of Bakhmut'

Wagner to leave Bakhmut by June 1, transfer control to Russian army

Bakhmut was previously known as Artemovsk to honour a Soviet revolutionary before Ukraine renamed iy

Has Russia captured Bakhmut? The conflicting claims over the Ukrainian city explained

As Moscow claimed Bakhmut has fallen, Ukraine rejected the report. The confusion started on Sunday (21 May) after president Volodymyr Zelenskyy ‘appeared to confirm’ that Kyiv has lost the city, only to deny it later

Bakhmut still with Ukraine, says Zelenskiy; refutes earlier statement

Asked before a meeting with US President Joe Biden in Japan if the city was still in Ukraine's hands after the Russians said they had seized it in its entirety, Zelenskiy told reporters, "I think no"

'There is nothing left': Ukrainian President Zelenskyy appears to confirm Bakhmut's fall to Russia

The Russian military claimed on Saturday that it has successfully captured the much-contested eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut

'We took the whole city, from house to house': Russia claims territorial victory in key Ukrainian city of Bakhmut

Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner Group led the all-out offensive in the city. Earlier in the day, Prigozhin said that his troops had finally pushed the Ukrainians out of the last built-up area inside the city

Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin accuses army of leaving Bakhmut's flanks exposed

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin on Thursday claimed that the Russian army battalions had retreated 570 m north of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, leaving the flanks of his own fighters exposed, according to a report

New advances near eastern city of Bakhmut, reports Ukraine military

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed continued Russian bombardment in numerous districts, stating in a televised address that these strikes demonstrated the need to increase international pressure on Moscow

Fighting intensifies in Kyiv: Is this the start of Ukraine's long-promised counter-offensive?

Analysts say Ukraine has stepped up its activity along the front line, seeking notably to pin Russia down and inflict maximum casualties around the flashpoint town of Bakhmut. But has the long-promised counter offensive against Moscow's invasion actually begun?

Ukraine war: Russian forces 'committed to reinforcing their tactical offensive effort in Bakhmut'

Russia's reinforcements to Bakhmut suggest that its forces are continuing to concentrate offensive capabilities there despite an assessed wider effort to reprioritise operations to prepare for potential Ukrainian counteroffensives