The Wagner Group will remain in Bakhmut for nowepicenter of the fighting in Ukraineafter Moscow has promised them the weapons and ammunition necessary to continue fighting in the Ukrainian city, of which the mercenaries claim to control 95% after more than nine months of fighting.

This, after the head of the paramilitary company, Yevgueni Prigozhin, exploded last Friday against the Kremlin due to lack of ammunitionannounced that its units would withdraw this Wednesday from the city. An act of rebellion that Vladimir Putin hastened to quell, since it is there that he has within reach of his first victory at the front since the summer past.

Thus, on Saturday night, when the Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, was already moving troops towards that front after offering to replace the mercenaries in Bakhmut, Wagner’s boss received a communication in which Moscow promised him “the necessary arms and ammunition to continue combat actions”.

In addition, he was assured that the mercenaries can act in the city “in the way they see fit” and that “everything would be done so that the enemy does not attack on the flanks,” Prigozhin said on Telegram. From now on, General Sergei Surovikin, former commander of the Russian troops in Ukraine, will be the one who makes “decisions regarding Wagner’s combat actions and his communication with Defense.”

Ukraine never believed that Wagner was going to abandon Bakhmut. Thus, on Saturday, with the internal dispute in Russia still simmering, the commander of the Eastern Ukraine Group of Forces, Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi, visited the eastern front, where he discussed “measures for a better defense of Bakhmut and the task of cause maximum damage to Wagner’s combatants”.

Thus, on the eve of Victory Day, in which Russia commemorates the victory over Nazi Germany, in Bakhmut urban fighting continues and, according to the Ukrainian Army, the Russian forces use there incendiary and phosphorus bombs. According to Colonel General Syrskyi, Russia has intensified its attacks on the city to try to take it completely before Tuesday.