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Putin and Shoigu yesterday visited the Vishnevsky Central Military Hospital in Moscow to greet several servicemen who sustained all manner of gruesome injuries amid fighting in Ukraine
The partial and confused reports of clashes on the Donbass front, point to the beginning of the much-heralded Ukrainian counter-offensive. On the basis of sketchy information it is impossible to make a definitive prognosis. The following lines therefore bear an entirely conditional character.
Russian paramilitary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said his troops have begun to withdraw from the besieged city of Bakhmut as they begin to be replaced by traditional Russian forces.