Wagner PMC mercenary group has taken Bakhmut claims Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin in a new video from the city

While a few videos of a handful of purportedly Ukrainian soldiers saying they were evacuating their positions had emerged yesterday, this is a definitive assertion. Ukrainian pushes and attacks had continued at the flanks of the area prior to this announcement, they likely will persist. Prigo says May 20th marks the day of the taking, a task accomplished by #Wagner and not #Russian army forces he points out. He thanks Surovikin and #Putin, criticizes Gerasimov and Shoigu, and laments that five times as many died as needed to take the city because of lack of support to Wagner. He announces that with the objective complete, Wagner will withdraw from Bakhmut on May 25th to be replaced by Russian armed forces for defense of the newly taken city. Lastly, the first subtitles didn’t pick it up well but Prigozhin says in a parting note to #Zelensky: “Today, when you see #Biden, kiss him on the top of his head and say hello to him from me.“