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With Wagner’s future in doubt, Ukraine could capitalise on chaos
Mercenary group played an outsize role in the campaign to take Bakhmut, Moscow’s one major battlefield victory this year
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Ukrainian servicemen fire a BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket system towards Russian troops near a front line in Zaporizhzhia on June 25.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Julian E. Barnes and Thomas Gibbons-Neff
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To some Ukrainian forces, soldiers from the Wagner Group were the best-equipped fighters they had seen since Russia invaded last year.
To others, it was their training that distinguished them: Ukrainian soldiers recalled battlefield stories of aggressive tactics or a sniper downing a drone with a single shot.
