The head of the Russian private military contractor, Wagner has claimed that his forces have started pulling out of bakhmut in eastern Ukraine and handing over control to the Russian military, the announcement by yevgeny prigozhin, the owner of the private military company, comes days after he said Wagner troops had captured the ruined city, the millionaire owner, with longtime links to Russian president Vladimir Putin, said in a video published on telegram that the handover would be completed by June 1st. We are handing over military positions, ammunition, everything including dry Russian to the Russian military. Nevertheless, a day earlier Ukrainian general staff said that heavy fighting was continuing inside the eastern city after a 9 month battle that killed tens of thousands of people, I am Karen Chammas