Heavy fighting in Ukraine’s Donetsk as Wagner targets village

Ukraine’s military says it repelled the attack near Blahodatne, but the Russian mercenary group says it is in control.

Ukraine’s military said its forces drove back an assault in the eastern Donetsk region after Russia’s paramilitary Wagner Group said it took control of Blahodatne village.

The forces “repelled attacks near … Blahodatne” and 13 other settlements in Donetsk, the Ukrainian military said in its daily report on Sunday.

But the Wagner Group said earlier that its units…