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Who controlled Bakhmut on 3 April 2023?
Summary
Competing claims over the eastern Ukrainian city emerged as news spread of a deadly bombing in Saint Petersburg.
Who held Bakhmut on 3 April 2023? Two sides gave opposing answers. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Group, claimed "legal control" of the city. Ukraine denied this, saying its troops remained in the western districts of Bakhmut.
The dispute sat within the Battle of Bakhmut, part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The competing accounts left the city's status contested on that date, with fighting continuing in its western districts according to Kyiv.
A bombing in Saint Petersburg
The previous day, 2 April 2023, a bombing at a café in Saint Petersburg killed Vladlen Tatarsky, a Russian pro-government war correspondent. Sixteen other people were injured. The café was owned by the oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, the same figure who made the Bakhmut claim a day later.
