The shadowy Wagner Company plans to pull out of Bakhmut amid infighting between its director and the Russian Defence Ministry.
Yevgeny Prigozhin confirmed the plan in a social media post which shows a video of him walking among the bodies of his dead fighters.
The former jailbird says thousands of his fighters will leave on May 10 - in a suspected blow to Moscow’s war campaign as it prepares for a Ukraine counter-offensive.
