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The Russian president has praised Wagner fighters and regular army servicemen for completing the capture of Artyomovsk Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the Wagner private military company and regular soldiers for liberating the Donbass city of Artyomovsk, known in Ukraine as Bakhmut, from the Ukrainian Army, the Kremlin said in the early hours of Sunday.

Minsk-style agreements are pointless and will never work, a Ukrainian negotiator says A temporary truce with Russia is “meaningless” and will only lead to a further escalation in the ongoing military conflict between Kiev and Moscow, a member of the Ukrainian team negotiating in peace talks has stated.