Russia's Wagner mercenary group said on Sunday that it had captured the village of Krasna Hora on the northern edge of Bakhmut.

The group's founder published a short video, apparently showing Wagner fighters at the entrance sign to Krasna Hora, which had a pre-war population of 600.

However, the claim that Russian forces have taken the village has not been independently verified.

The embattled Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, in eastern Donetsk, has been the scene of brutal warfare for months. Kyiv's top military commander, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, said on Saturday that Ukraine continues to hold Bakhmut, trying to "stabilise" the frontline around it.

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