Metro Plus News Wagner founder Prigozhin says Russian forces take Ukraine village Krasna Hora

Wagner founder Prigozhin says Russian forces take Ukraine village Krasna Hora

Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Russia’s Wagner Group, said on Sunday that the mercenary force had taken the village of Krasna Hora on the northern edge of the embattled Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.
Bakhmut, a city in the eastern Donetsk region, has been the scene of brutal warfare for months. Kyiv’s top military commander, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, said on Saturday that Ukraine continues to hold Bakhmut, trying to “stabilise” the frontline around it.
In an audio message published by his press service on the messaging app Telegram, Prigozhin said: “Today the settlement of Krasna Hora was taken by the assault troops of the Wagner private military company”.
Prigozhin also published a short video, apparently showing Wagner fighters at the entrance sign to Krasna Hora, which had a pre-war population of 600.
Reuters could not independently verify that the village had been taken.