Loading ...Russia’s Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Reveals 20,000 Of His Fighters Killed At Bakhmut, Says Putin’s War Has Backfired
“If they [the army] cannot take over [the positions], then the persons concerned must shoot themselves,” Prigozhin added. “There was only Wagner here [in Bakhmut],” he had early declared in a video posted to Wagner channels on Saturday.
“We fought not only the Ukrainian army here, we fought Russian bureaucracy,” Prigozhin asserted, which is a similar them he echoed from the fight for nearby Soledar.
But sure to unleash more controversy and commentary inside the Kremlin is his strongly suggesting in the interview that Putin’s war in Ukraine has backfired. Below are Prigozhin’s remarks in this section as presented in Newsweek:
oops..just read this..what’s with this guy and why do they let him speak ?
Well, he’s right that Ukraine is hardly demilitarized. Even if less Nazified.
And he’s lost 20% of his men.
Could be Disinformation Strategy also.
OR … a face saving concession ahead of negotiations?
BUT .. I thought I read that from Bakhmut to Kiev would be an all open ground blitzkrieg. Now that ground is drying.
Moot point but 20% of 50 k is 10 k
If you are Following the Duran
Bakhmud was the hub of the Supply routes for the Ukrainian Military
But there is still Much larger Cities just to the west that are part of the Donbas Region
They are saying that Those Cities are Not as well Fortified but still remain a tough nut to crack
Once the Donbas is “liberated” they are saying the road to the rest of Ukraine is Open
Could take anothe year