 Not a single building is seen left intact in a report by Russian media outlet Izvestia from the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmet, seen of some of the most fierce battles of the Ukraine conflict. The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigazin said on May 20 that his forces had captured all the territory in Bakhmet as promised and would start leaving the conflict zone later this week. In a short report published on May 23, Russia's some fighters from Wagner around the ruins in Bakhmet. The Wagner mercenaries spoke of some of the assaults they took part in the city, while others talked of dogs left behind in children's toys they had found among the ruins of apartment buildings. Ukraine's Bakhmet once had a population of 71,000 people and was famous for nearby salt deposit and its local champagne made using grapes from Crimea. There are a lot of them in the city. There are a lot of them. There are a lot of animals left behind in the city, which people try to keep with them. And, accordingly, they are accompanied on all the way. We feed them, try to make their lives easier.