MOSCOW. April 3 (Interfax) - Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin has said that group units took control of the administration building in Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
"April 2, 2023, 11 p.m. We have hoisted the Russian flag with a caption, which reads 'in memory of Vladlen Tatarsky', and the PMC Wagner flag on the building of the Bakhmut city administration. Bakhmut is de jure taken under control," Prigozhin's press service quoted him as saying.
"The enemy is concentrated" in western parts of the city, Prigozhin said.