Ukraine’s military has rejected as untrue a Russian claim to have captured more than 80 per cent of the city of Bakhmut and says its forces control “considerably” more than 20 per cent of it in the east.
Serhiy Cherevatyi, spokesman for the eastern military command, made the comment to Reuters a day after the head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group said that his forces were advancing in their bid to seize Bakhmut after months of fighting.
