Russia’s Wagner says taking full control of Berkhivka near Bakhmut

The head of Russia’s Wagner group on Friday said that his fighters had captured a village near eastern city of Bakhmut, the scene of fierce fighting between the two sides for months.

Berkhivka “is entirely under our control,” Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a statement released by his press service on the one-year anniversary of Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine.