“Wagner chief offered to give Russian troop locations to Ukraine, leak says”
“Yevgeniy Prigozhin said he would tell Ukraine’s military where to attack Russian troops if they pulled their own forces back from the beleaguered city of Bakhmut, where Wagner mercenaries were taking heavy losses”
“In late January, with his mercenary forces dying by the thousands in a fight for the ruined city of Bakhmut, Wagner Group owner Yevgeniy Prigozhin made Ukraine an extraordinary offer.”
From what I’m seeing this morning —it looks like the ukes closed the two sides of the pincers and cut off the russians on the southern salient around bakhmut.
The deep question is as to whether the uke troops doing this are part of the 13 brigades the Ukes are said to have in reserve for the summer offensive or whether the troops cutting off the russians are just the uke line troops for the first time deciding to go on the offensive.
I’m inclined to think the latter because we don’t see images of vast lines of tanks moving forward. Rather it looks like a couple tanks and apc with support troops move forward and discover there isn’t much resistance. What resistance they do find—they radio back their artillery to take out.
Uke artillery is amazingly good. You see truck tanks and apc’s moving down a highway and then they get blown up. the narrater says its uke artillery.
the natural thought wtf? to take out a moving vehicle the artillery has to do one of two things: 1.)— the atillery has to be tracking and moving like a man with a rifle tracks and moves his gun following a moving figure—and maybe fires slightly in front of the moving figure to make the shot. or 2.) the artillery has to be previously sighted into a particular spot in front of the moving. then the gun fires when some predetermined calculations is triggered that includes the truck’s speed and the distance to the pre determined spot.
I’m inclined to think that the way they do it byo of option 2.) but I don’t know.
all that has to be built into the artillery.which means it probably is built into the artillery.
amazing.