Split escalates between Wagner Group and Russian military

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Split escalates between Wagner Group and Russian military

Ukrainian military sources say their forces have inflicted heavy losses in a counter-attack on a Russian brigade in Bakhmut. The town has been at the centre of months of bitter street fighting with Ukraine hanging on to just a few western districts. Kiev claims the counter-attack against Russia's 72 Brigade re-took a corridor of territory more than three kilometres deep. Simon McGregor-Wood has more.