Drone footage shows Russian troops fighting Ukrainians in Popansa, Donbas Soldiers are reportedly mercenaries from the Wagner Group, which would mark the first time they have been seen joining in battle inside Ukraine Popansa has seen heavy fighting as Russia tries to surround Ukrainian troops British MoD says Russians ‘struggling to break defences and build momentum’. Wagner Group mercenaries have been filmed fighting in Ukraine for the first time as Russian troops go house-to-house in the bloody battle for control of Donbas. Drone footage from the town of Popansa, in Ukraine’s east, shows a squad of Russians involved in intense street fighting with Ukrainian defenders – storming a house and throwing grenades before forcing them to surrender. The soldiers are mercenaries from the Wagner Group, according to pro-Russian sources – a shadowy military contractor with links to the Kremlin which is thought to be responsible for atrocities in conflicts from South America to the Middle East. The footage emerged as UK intelligence said today that Russian forces are ‘struggling to break through defences and build momentum’ in the fight for Donbas, the outcome of which is seen as pivotal to the overall war. (…) Footage of the Wagner mercenaries first appeared on the Telegram channel of ‘Colonel Cassad’ – a pro-Russian blogger named Boris Rozhin who is based in Crimea who posts updates from Ukraine to an audience hundreds of thousands strong. It was re-posed by Rob Lee, a respected analyst from the War Studies department of King’s College, who repeated Rozhin’s claim that the troops are from Wagner.
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