Wagner Chief Says His Mercenaries Are Exiting Bakhmut to Hand Over to Russian Army
A video grab of Yevgeny Prigozhin in Bakhmut, Ukraine, on May 25.
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Wagner mercenary group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said his forces have begun pulling out of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut to hand responsibility to the Russian army.
Days after he claimed to have taken the city following months of intense fighting, a video posted on Prigozhin’s Telegram channel Thursday showed him in military fatigues talking to troops on a tank about the withdrawal that he said would be completed by June 1.