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1:50Third retreat since September
The withdrawal is the third since the invasion began on February 24. Russia abandoned its offensive in the Kyiv region in the spring. In September, after military setbacks in the northeast, it abandoned almost the entire Kharkiv region.
According to the Ministry of Defense of Moscow, she did not suffer losses in the withdrawal. Ukraine claims that the process was very chaotic and that many Russians drowned. It is said that Russian soldiers, whether in civilian clothes or not, remained in the city. The Ukrainian army called them to surrender.
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0:37Russia’s Wagner Group said it was training militias in the border area
Russia’s Wagner Group said it trains civilians in regions bordering Ukraine. According to the founder of the paramilitary organization, Yevgeny Prigozhin, they are forming new militias and building fortifications to guard the borders.
“Wagner will help people in the border areas build infrastructure, train and organize militias.” Prigozhin claims that large groups of people are already “ready to defend their country”.
And it will mainly concern the Belgorod and Kursk regions, which, according to Moscow, have been regularly under fire in recent months. The Russians accuse the Ukrainian army of attacking towns near the border with Kharkiv.
The group has been accused of war crimes since 2014.
Prigozhin first admitted in September that Wagner was active in the war in Ukraine. The mercenaries are said to have been there since 2014 and have been accused by human rights groups and the Ukrainian government of committing war crimes in the Donets Basin years ago.
The private army has previously fought in Africa and Latin America and is also said to be responsible for war crimes in Syria. Wagner is accused of being an extension of the Russian state, but the Kremlin denies this. The paramilitary group opened a headquarters in Saint Petersburg this month.
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