The owner of Russia's Wagner Group mercenary squad, Yevgeny Prigozhin, claimed Wednesday that his troops have extended their gains in the Donbas region city. Even Ukraine's daily military report issued Wednesday noted that "in the direction of Bakhmut, the Russians continue to advance, attempts to storm the city of Bakhmut continue."
Ukraine Defense Ministry official Hanna Malyar, however, dismissed suggestions that Bakhmut would soon fall.
"There are a lot of expert opinions now," she said. "But we can see from the situation that no matter how many predicted what will happen there, Bakhmut is still standing."
The task force said the plane's owners were violating U.S. sanctions. KleptoCapture is a United States Department of Justice unit created in 2022 that enforces sanctions on Russian oligarchs in response to the Ukrainian invasion.
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