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Andrii Kovalchuk, the head of Southern Operational Command, and Serhii Litvinov, the head of Eastern Operational Command, have been promoted and will leave their current posts, the Ground Forces' spokesperson, Volodymyr Fitio, confirmed for the Kyiv Independent on April 11.
“Today, at 12 noon, Bahmut was completely taken,” Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed in a video purporting to show him holding a Russian flag in the embattled city. Ukrainian officials have denied his claim.
The British Ministry of Defense said that Moscow was showing a "notable commitment" to taking the Donetsk city.
It could be an attempt to "imply that the Russia operation is sustaining momentum".