Marat Khousnoullin claims to have visited the center of Bakhmut and said that Russia could rebuild the city once conquered by Moscow. No information on this trip is known and RFI is not able to confirm this visit from an independent source.
An examination of the footage shows him being closely followed by a handful of soldiers. Their identification is not 100% visible, but on at least one of them a well-known patch: the skull and the mention "private company Wagner"