Published February 12,2023
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Yevgeny Prigozhin, founding father of Russia’s Wagner Group, stated in an announcement on Sunday that the mercenary power had taken the village of Krasna Hora, on the northern fringe of the embattled metropolis of Bakhmut in Ukraine’s Donetsk area.
In an audio message revealed by his press service on the messenging app Telegram, Prigozhin stated: “Today the settlement of Krasna Hora was taken by the assault troops of the Wagner private military company”.
Prigozhin additionally revealed a brief video, apparently exhibiting Wagner fighters on the entrance signal to Krasna Hora, which had a pre-war inhabitants of 600.
Reuters couldn’t independently confirm that the village had been taken.
The Wagner Group, a as soon as secretive mercenary power that fought for Moscow’s allies in Africa and the Middle East, has for months spearheaded the assault on Bakhmut, making small however regular features in a battle that has raged since final summer time.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
