Russian mercenary boss says Bakhmut practically surrounded -March 3rd

Girkin not happy. He's a classic SOB...but he speaks some truth.

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1634835914731163651?s=20

Another monument bites the dust....why even a museum....bust it up, grind it up, use it for back fill somewhere.

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/1633904242913099780?s=20

 

Russian defeat is coming.

 

Update from Ukraine | Ukraine Collects Forces for the possible advance in Bakhmut | Ruzzia is scared


The trap is about to be sprung

 

Yep....the consortium will claim its Azov fake news.

Bakhmut similar to this ....Azov Nazis repelling waves of Wankers....Strantzky,Meyer ,Steiner....

Must admit....the MG42 is a beast.

 

“I think, at this moment, using Bakhmut to allow the Russians to impale themselves on it is the right course of action, given the extraordinary casualties that the Russians are taking,” retired general and former CIA Director David Petraeus told POLITICO.

Zelenskyy has no choice but to ask his fighters to hold Bakhmut — for now

 

19th century tactics in the 21st century....nothings changed in 200 yrs.

 

Russian MOD using Bakhmut to bleed Wagner.
Ukraine Conflict Updates
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 12, 2023

Click here to read the full report.
ISW is publishing an abbreviated campaign update today, March 12. This report establishes a comprehensive timeline of the rivalry between Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD), which likely reached a boiling point over Bakhmut. The report also analyzes the Russian MoD’s likely intent to expend Wagner forces in Bakhmut and explores Russian President Vladimir Putin’s manipulation of this conflict to maintain the stability of his regime.

The conflict between the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) and Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin likely reached its climax against the backdrop of the Battle of Bakhmut. The Russian MoD – specifically Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and Chief of the Russian General Staff General Valery Gerasimov – is likely seizing the opportunity to deliberately expend both elite and convict Wagner forces in Bakhmut in an effort to weaken Prigozhin and derail his ambitions for greater influence in the Kremlin. The Russian MoD had been increasingly restricting Prigozhin’s ability to recruit convicts and secure ammunition, forcing Prigozhin to publicly recognize his dependency on the Russian MoD. Prigozhin, for example, publicly complained that he mailed a letter and tried to send his representative – likely to Shoigu and Gerasimov – with an urgent demand for ammunition, but that the representative was not allowed to present his complaints.[1] Prigozhin had been able to grow his forces by 40,000 convicts likely with the Kremlin’s permission to recruit in prisons in 2022 but lost that permission and access to that manpower pool at the beginning of 2023.[2] Prigozhin has threatened to withdraw Wagner forces from Bakhmut and insinuated that the Russian MoD used Wagner to bear the brunt of the high-intensity attritional urban warfare to seize Bakhmut in order to conserve Russian conventional forces.[3] These threats and complaints indicate that Prigozhin is aware of the gravity of his conflict with the Russian MoD.

The Russian military leadership may be trying to expend Wagner forces – and Prigozhin’s influence – in Bakhmut. Russian forces’ rate of advance in Bakhmut slowed following the Ukrainian withdrawal from eastern Bakhmut around March 7.[4] ISW assessed on March 6 that Wagner had to commit its elite forces to maintain offensive momentum in Bakhmut but may be running out of these forces during direct assaults on eastern, southern, and northern parts of Bakhmut.[5] Geolocated footage published on February 18 showed 43 buses with Wagner mercenaries moving from Crimea via Melitopol possibly to reinforce positions in Bakhmut.[6] Prigozhin complained on March 5 and 6 that Wagner needed additional reinforcements, and Ukrainian military officials observed that Russian forces were suffering a seven-to-one casualty ratio compared to Ukrainian forces.[7] . . . .

 

Wagner running out of soldiers.
Euronews
Wagner 'recruiting in Moscow high schools for young warriors'

 

World
Business Insider
Russia is using one of Ukraine's bloodiest battles to decimate the Wagner Group, after its boss started a feud with military leaders, experts say

 

Looks like Piggy picked a fight he can't win.

 

World
The Daily Beast
Bloodshed in Bakhmut: Russia Suffers Potentially Deadliest Day Yet in Ukraine

 

Russians attack Bakhmut with infantry against Ukrainian self-propelled artillery


Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

 

What a waste of humanity.

What's worse....is that this is what other European states can expect from the Mafiosi $hitshow.

 

14 Mar: Ukrainians Snipers DESTROY AN ELITE WAGNER COMMANDO UNIT | War in Ukraine Explained

 

Lotsa "improved" Wankers.

 

If Russia cannot handle Ukraine, then I doubt they can handle Ukraine AND any other European country.

 

So serving in the The Wagner Army of Terrorists is the Moskovian version of post high school graduate school. What is the recruiting slogan? Visit Ukraine , die in Bakhmut for the glory of Moskhailshchyna?

 

Love it when a plan comes together.

 

Since Moskhailnyks are running out of criminals to feed the Beast of Bakhmut it is time to throw humans into the meat chopper.

 

This is a direct quote from the article imbedded in your post. “On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed that over 1,100 Russian fighters had been killed in the city in less than a week. He claimed that Moscow had sustained a further 1,500 “sanitary losses”—meaning casualties injured badly enough to be unable to continue fighting.” This good news of the number of Russian invaders permanently eliminated by end of life or being rendered unfit for military service is welcome news but is a high point an outlier. What the Ukrainians need is to have mean point of causing KIA of let’s say 500 and permanently wounded and rendered useless for military service 750 weekly for 3-4 consecutive months. The way for Ukrainians to achieve this is for most of the promised military hardware to be online in Ukrainian hands. The related and likely co-dependent loner term need if way more fighter/ fighter bomber aircraft. Problem is that the Russian military may be incompetent right now but they have the numbers in service and potentially available for mobilization that Ukraine cannot even hope to achieve. The answer for Ukraine is to be better trained ( right now is) , better motivated (is) stay better equipped. This needs to be done now because time is not on Ukraine’s side. The support in the US is starting to wane. Trump’s base is listening and believing him that Putin is a great smart guy and they are eating up Trump’s Neville Chamberlain act of cowardness. DeSantis the Trump light wannabe has done a 180 and now opposes help for Ukraine. Yes for now there are still good decent Republicans around who are still supporting Ukraine. There are some whack jobs among Democrats who do not support Ukraine and their number needs to be kept down.

 

I always wonder just how much of isolationist thinking among today's conservatives is a product of the Kremlin's hybrid warfare. They use our free press and freedom of speech against us to influence public opinion from the shadows and get us to vote for what the Kremlin wants.

 

Do you think that Prigozhin does not realize that? Or maybe his ego and political ambitions keeps driving him to “win” something? It would be nice to have a Wagner group sort of viable to form one of the forces for a future civil war in Moskovia.

 

Yes Russia uses our freedoms against us to spread propaganda just as Soviet Russia did after Germany invaded Russian occupied Western Ukraine in 1941. But then Soviet Russia diode not support isolationism by Americans. Trump has been an isolationist from day one of his campaign for the 2016 election. His ego drove him to deny that Russia supported him and his base follows suit and eats up his lies like pigs at the trough of a Golden Coral all you can gorge down. Bill Barr by cherry picking and outright lying about the Muller report gave false but effective credence to the Trumpian lie of no Russian involvement. The “conservatives” who are true Trump supporters let Russia’s lies reinforce isolationism. Congress still has good conservatives and NON LEFT WING Democrats to see that supporting Ukraine is supporting our security needs. In a way this is a similar scenario that FDR faced trying to support GB. Ironically most isolationists were Republicans back then.The other factor is that there is a tendency among many Republicans to oppose anything Biden supports. Yes many Democrats do the same thing to real Republican presidents. I do not consider Trump to be a Republican.

Russian propaganda supports and promotes the Trumpian lie of a fraudulent election.

 

Did not know that Kremlin is so powerful that it can influence public opinion in the US and force people to do what it wants them to do.

 

You didn't know that the Kremlin invests heavily into influencing public opinion both domestically and abroad? Well, of course you didn't. It's not the sort of thing they talk about on Россия 24 now, is it? Can't tell the people you're manipulating that they're being manipulated.