Images taken from the town of Chasiv Yar show smoke rising from the direction of Bakhmut following shelling. The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group said that his forces control more than half of the embattled eastern Ukraine town of Bakhmut, the stage for the longest battle of Russia's offensive.

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