Drone footage captures Bakhmut devastation

Описание: (26 May 2023)
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Bakhmut, Ukraine - 21 May 2023
1. Smoke billowing from high-rise building standing amid other blackened buildings amid ruins
2. Tily up from ruins of buildings in foreground to wider view
3. Wide of city, pan left and zoom in to blackened ruins of buildings
4. Ruins of buildings
STORYLINE:

Recent drone footage over Bakhmut shows a city in ruins with smoke billowing from one of the last remaining high-rise buildings.

Footage shot on Monday, the day after the head of the Wagner Group private military contractor said his troops had captured the ruined city, shows the extent of the devastation.

Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin also claimed Thursday that his forces have started pulling out of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine and were handing over control to the Russian military.

In a video published on Telegram, he said that the handover would be completed by June 1.

Russia's Defense Ministry did not confirm Prigozhin's statement, adding that it wasn't possible independently to verify whether Wagner’s pullout from the bombed-out city has begun after a nine-month battle that killed tens of thousands of people.

Prigozhin said his troops would now rest in camps, repair equipment and await further orders.

Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said Thursday that regular Russian troops had replaced Wagner units in the suburbs but that Wagner fighters remained inside the city.

Ukrainian forces maintain a foothold in the southwestern outskirts, she said.

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