The leader of the Russian “Wagner” military group announced on Sunday that his troops captured the Ukrainian city of Krasna Hora, which is located a few kilometers north of Bakhmut. “Today, Wagner’s militants captured the settlement of Krasna HoraYevgeny Prigogine stated, quoting her press service.
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Wagner, the militia’s founder, also released a short video that appears to show mercenaries at the entrance sign to Krasna Hora. For several months, Moscow tried to occupy this place, which had 600 inhabitants before the war.
The “Wagner” group already announced on January 11 that it had captured Soledar, a larger town not far from Krasna Hora. But the Russian Ministry of Defense took two days to announce Soledar’s conquest, revealing a rift between Wagner and the Russian regular army.
“After the capture of Soledar, there was a rumor that other than Wagner’s warriors were in Soledar. Of course the boys weren’t happy“, Yevgeny Prigogine recalled on Sunday. He also assured that only Wagner’s troops are fighting “a radius of fifty kilometers or soAround Bakhmut. If the city is taken, it will be by his units, he insisted on Sunday.
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Source: Le Figaro
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