The head of Russia's Wagner paramilitary group said his mercenaries had captured Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine on Saturday, a claim the Ukrainian military denied even as their soldiers have been forced into an ever shrinking patch of land inside the ruined city.Senior Ukrainian military officials acknowledged that the situation inside the city was critical, with soldiers facing an unrelenting barrage of artillery fire and powerful aerial bombardments.
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