The head of the Wagner military group attached to the Russian army announced that it has raised the country's flag over the city hall of Bakhmut in the self-proclaimed Donetsk Republic, and that the city is technically under Russian control.

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA): Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner military group attached to the Russian army, announced that the country's flag was hoisted over the municipality of Bakhmut in the self-proclaimed Republic of Donetsk.
 
He wrote in his Telegram account: "Exactly at 23:00 on April 2nd. Behind me is the Bakhmut Municipality building. This is the Russian flag for Vladelin Tatarsky (the journalist who was killed in the St. Petersburg explosion last night). "Technically (legally) we have captured Bakhmut."
 
He further added: "The commanders of the Russian military units have captured the municipal building and the entire central area of Bakhmut.”The enemy still remains in the western parts."
 
At the same time, the Ukrainian army has denied the complete fall of the city of Bakhmut and said that its forces are still in control of the western part of the city.
 
According to the AFP report, the Ukrainian army said that its forces still control the western part of this strategic city.
 
On the 8th day, the TASS news agency reported that the authorities of the Donetsk Republic had taken over the industrial zone of the strategic city of Bakhmut in this province.
 
A retired Luhansk colonel and military expert recently told the Russian news agency "Ryanovsk" about the heavy losses of the Ukrainian army in Bakhmut, that only last week, the security forces of Kiev suffered a total of 4,500 dead and wounded in the battle of the Artemovsk region (Bakhmut).
 
According to this report, during the 9-month battle between Ukrainian soldiers and Russian soldiers in Bakhmut, this city was almost destroyed and 90% of the population of this city, or about 70 thousand people, fled from this city, and the Ukrainian army killed between 100 and 100 people every day. He loses 200 soldiers in the battle with Russia.
 
For months, Ukraine has been asking for heavy weapons, including advanced assault tanks and fighter jets, to resist and push back Russian forces.