Ukrainian units are making it clear that they do not regard the Wagner withdrawal from Bakhmut as a reprieve, but as another opportunity to improve their own positions while inflicting damage on the Russians both retreating and coming in. JL
Isabel Van Brugen reports in Newsweek:
Ukrainian forces have inflicted casualties on Russian Wagner Group forces withdrawing from the city of Bakhmut. Clashes in the city have significantly decreased, but Ukraine killed 80 Wagner Group fighters and wounded a further 119 as they retreated from Bakhmut. Ukraine's armed forces also destroyed one armored personnel carrier, one drone, an anti-aircraft gun, two other vehicles and five ammunition depots. The withdrawal "has a depressing effect on those who take their place because they themselves have already taken part in a lot of fighting plus they see the condition of the criminals from Wagner"