Russia sets Bakhmut ablaze after Wagner boss threatens to withdraw

 

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"Russia has set Bakhmut ablaze with incendiary weapons just hours after the boss of the Wagner mercenary group announced his forces could soon withdraw. > Videos filmed by a Ukrainian drone operator showed the city wreathed in flames, as bright incendiary munitions rained down from the sky. > Another video showed a person cowering as they filmed the flames raining down over the city in eastern Ukraine. It came after Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, threatened yesterday to withdraw his forces on May 10 because of ammunition shortages." Subscribe to The Telegraph with our special offer: just £1 for 3 months. Start your free trial now: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/customer/... Get the latest headlines: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Telegraph.co.uk and    / telegraphtv   are websites of The Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.

MILITARY OPERATION IN UKRAINE

6 MAY, 02:18

Russia’s Battlegroup West destroys four Ukrainian subversive groups in Kupyansk area

Artillery fire from Msta-B howitzers destroyed an enemy ammunition depot in the Bochkovo area, Battlegroup Spokesman Sergey Zybinsky says

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MOSCOW, May 6. /TASS/. Soldiers from Russia’s Battlegroup West eliminated four groups of Ukrainian saboteurs over the past day, said Battlegroup Spokesman Sergey Zybinsky.

"In operational activity in the Kupyansk area, Battlegroup West soldiers uncovered and destroyed four groups of enemy saboteurs from the 14th and 92nd separate mechanized brigades over the past day," Zybinsky said in a video posted on the Russian Defense Ministry’s Telegram channel.

According to Zybinsky, the Russian forces disrupted two attempts at rotation by Ukrainian units on the front lines near the localities of Novomlynsk and Novoseleovskoye.

"The crews of Ka-52 and Mi-28 helicopters of the group's army aviation hit the areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment of the 101st separate mechanized territorial defense brigade near the village of Gorki," the head of the press center added.

He also said that artillery fire from Msta-B howitzers destroyed an enemy ammunition depot in the Bochkovo area.

"In the area of the settlement of Ogurtsovo and Ivanovka, fire from D-20 and Msta-S howitzers destroyed two enemy mortar squads," Zybinsky concluded.

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