A Ukrainian official says Wagner is stepping up recruitment efforts in the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol. Follow live updates.
Russian defense ministry may be using Bakhmut to lessen Wagner influence, ISW analysis findsUkrainian servicemen fire towards Russian positions on the front line near the city of Bakhmut, Ukraine, on March 11.
ISW assessed that the defense ministry"is likely seizing the opportunity to deliberately expend both elite and convict Wagner forces in Bakhmut in an effort to weaken Prigozhin and derail his ambitions for greater influence in the Kremlin." ISW also noted that Prigozhin had"insinuated that the Russian MoD used Wagner to bear the brunt of the high-intensity attritional urban warfare ... in order to conserve Russian conventional forces."
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