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The chief of the mercenary group made the claim but Ukraine says it still controls parts of the city.

Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed to have captured Bakhmut on Saturday, but Kyiv says it still controls parts of the city.

“Ground to space, rear to deep: From a threat standpoint, we have to be prepared to operate in that entire range.”

Ukraine's president said the city, where the war's longest and bloodiest battle has raged since August, was "not occupied" by Russia "as of today".

Mr Zelensky laid a wreath for those who were killed in the attack.

The supply of Russian troops is complicated.

Russian propagandists are panicking.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, while recruiting neo-Nazis, members of notorious Azov Battalion and even members and supporters of Islamic State | BLiTZ

DAVID PATRIKARAKOS: I still dream of Bakhmut (pictured). Im back in the city centre, embedded with the Ukrainian special forces. Shells are falling all around me; they roar like rolling thunder.

Ukrainian forces conducted successful limited counterattacks around Bakhmut on May 9.