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Bakhmut Falls, Artyomovsk Rises – Strategic and Symbolic City in Eastern Ukraine Fully Encircled by Russian Forces – Kiev Leaves 10k Soldiers Trapped in the ‘Cauldron’
The Battle for Bakhmut/Artyomovsk has been widely considered one of the toughest since the Second World War. So bloody has it been, that terms like ‘meat grinder’ and ‘vortex’ are applied to it daily.
Artyomovsk (Russian name) is an important city in the Donbas, the Russian-speaking region comprised of the Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts (states). The defense of the ethnic Russians in this region was one of the primary objectives of Putin in his Special Military Operation, so the capture of this key regional logistics and transport hub is crucial to the Russian plans of liberating the areas of Donetsk Oblast still under Kiev’s control.
While US and UK officials have, as of late, tried to downplay the strategic importance of Bakhmut (Ukrainian name), deeming it to be merely ‘symbolic’, Ukrainian president Zelensky stated that a loss in Bakhmut would mean an open road for Russian forced to attack other important cities in Eastern Ukraine.
As for the symbolic value of Bakhmut, Zelensky called it the ‘the fortress of our morale’, so it’s understandable that he and his Generals may have chosen to defend it to the end, rather than retreat their overwhelmed troops while they still could. But ‘the end’ appears to be nearing.
Russian agency TASS reported:
‘Artyomovsk (called Bakhmut in Ukraine) has been fully sealed off by Russian forces and all the approaches to the city are under artillery control, Yan Gagin, military-political expert and adviser to the acting head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), said on Wednesday.
“The city is in operational encirclement, which means that all the approaches and all the transportation arteries leading to it are under the control of our artillery. In principle, it can be said that the city has been actually sealed off,” he said in a live broadcast on the Rossiya-1 television channel.’
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Has Antifa infiltrated Trump protests? Demonstrator with ANARCHIST tattoo on his neck is spotted whipping Trump supporters into a frenzy in Manhattan
An Antifa infiltrator was spotted confronting protestors in New York as they gathered in anticipation of Donald Trump’s potential arrest
Despite siding with Trump supporters, the protestor was caught with an anarchist tattoo on his neck in images from earlier in the day
A protestor was caught whipping Trump supporters into a frenzy in Manhattan, just moments after he covered an ‘anarchist’ tattoo commonly worn by Antifa agitators.
Leading a chant of ‘Let’s go Trump!’, the man started questioning another protestor’s allegiance to the former president - ahead of his potential indictment by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.
Not long before leading the frenzy, he was spotted by a photojournalist on the scene hiding a tattoo of the anarchist ‘A’ symbol emblazoned on his neck.
The suspicious appearance comes after years of speculation from Trump’s base that Antifa instigators join their events to incite violence.