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Update from Ukraine | Bakhmut Holds | Can Ukraine Counterattack? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt-Fu9hEk4k
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March 5, 2023 Invasion Day 374 – Summary The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-374-summary/
This is Militaryland Website recap of – February 2023 https://militaryland.net/news/website-recap-february-2023/
Update from Ukraine | Bakhmut Holds | Can Ukraine Counterattack?
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Posted on 3/5/2023, 5:28:45 PM by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Update from Ukraine | Bakhmut Holds | Can Ukraine Counterattack? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt-Fu9hEk4k
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March 5, 2023 Invasion Day 374 – Summary The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-374-summary/
This is Militaryland Website recap of – February 2023 https://militaryland.net/news/website-recap-february-2023/
ARTICLE
Russian troops ordered to fight with ‘shovels’ in hand-to-hand combat, UK defense intel says
by bdawson@insider.com (Bethany Dawson)
https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-troops-are-ordered-fight-with-shovels-uk-defense-intel-2023-3?op=1
OR
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-troops-ordered-to-fight-with-shovels-in-hand-to-hand-combat-uk-defense-intel-says/ar-AA18fk0x
PHOTOS AT LINK
-Russian soldiers were told to fight with only “firearms and shovels,” the Ministry of Defence said
-The shovels are believed to be the MPL-50 entrenching tool, designed in1869, said the UK ministry.
-The order showed the “brutal and low-tech fighting” that now characterizes the war, said the MoD.
Russian soldiers are being ordered to fight Ukrainian forces with only “firearms and shovels,” said the UK’s Ministry of Defence.
An intelligence briefing from the UK Ministry of Defence details that Russian reservists were ordered to “assault a Ukrainian concrete strong point armed with only firearms and shovels’” in February 2023.
“The ‘shovels’ are likely entrenching tools being employed for hand-to-hand combat,” said the briefing.
It is thought that the “shovels” in question are the renowned MPL-50 entrenching tools first designed in 1869. Soviet special forces used it in close-quarters combat and as throwing weapons. The MPL-50 as a weapon had been “mythologized” in Russia, said the MoD.
Using the entrenching tool, “little changed since it was designed in 1869,” highlighted the brutal and low-tech fighting which has come to characterize the year-long war between Russia and Ukraine, said the MoD
The increase in hand-to-hand combat in Ukraine was due to a declining number of troops, artillery, and munition, it said.
The intelligence briefing also raised the question of the welfare of Russian troops, stating that a reservist said they were not “physically or psychologically” ready for the war.
The fighting ability and morale of Putin’s mobilized troops were highlighted in previous intelligence from the Ministry of Defence, saying they were called to fight despite having “serious, chronic health conditions.”
Indeed, it has been reported that Russian forces have been deploying “barrier troops” or “blocking units” to shoot Russian soldiers who defect and desert the war.
According to a brief from the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), between 60,000 and 70,000 Russian soldiers have been killed on the battlefield in Ukraine since the invasion began on February 24 2022.
Globalism at all costs.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCgBvumpCsU
Ukraine military update.
ARTICLE
Wagner Chief Prigozhin Outlines Why Russia Refuses To End Invasion
Story by Ellie Cook • 10h ago
Ukraine will keep renewing efforts to retake the land it controlled prior to 2014 if Russia does not continue fighting, according to the chief of the Wagner group of mercenary fighters, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Russian billionaire and businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin attends Russian-Turkish talks in Konstantin Palace in Strenla on August,9, 2016 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Prigozhin’s fighters have been heavily involved in fighting for the Donetsk city of Bakhmut, which has been the focus of fierce battles for months.
“I am absolutely sure that Ukraine, with the help of the NATO bloc, will break through these ‘red lines’ and return those territories that belonged to it until 2014,” Prigozhin said in a statement posted to Telegram via his company’s page on Saturday.
“There is no doubt about it,” he added, saying war would then “start again.” Such a conflict may “turn out to be even more tragic and bloody than the first. Therefore, we need to fight for Russia here and now,” the oligarch known as “Putin’s chef” said.
Prigozhin is a prominent and outspoken voice among Russia’s elite and an associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin. However, he has heavily criticized Russia’s conventional military forces and Moscow’s defense ministry.
Prigozhin’s fighters have been heavily involved in Russian operations to take control of the eastern Donetsk city of Bakhmut, which has been under intense bombardment for months.
The “most advanced and prepared elements” of the Wagner paramilitary outfit have fought in assault operations around the city, the Institute for the Study of War think tank said on Saturday.
The ISW said Wagner mercenaries, along with Russia’s armed forces, look to have set themselves up for a “turning movement,” which would force Kyiv’s forces to abandon their defensive positions in the devastated city.
Citing Russian sources, the think tank said Wagner Group fighters may have progressed through eastern and northeastern Bakhmut to create this “tactically challenging turning movement in urban areas” in the north of the city.
This is a change from encirclement of the city, which the ISW and the British defense ministry previously evaluated as the Russian strategy.
On Sunday, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said Russia was attempting to “surround” Bakhmut, but Kyiv’s forces had fended off the attacks.
On Saturday, the British defense ministry said Bakhmut was under “increasingly severe pressure,” and Ukraine’s resupply routes were becoming more and more limited. Kyiv had sent in elite units to back up its fighters in the city, the ministry added.
The remaining residents of Bakhmut are now fleeing on foot, the Associated Press reported on Saturday. The city had a pre-war population of around 75,000 people.
The city’s deputy mayor told the BBC on Saturday that “not a single building” in Bakhmut was untouched by the fighting, both around the city and in the streets.
Pray for American tax dollars to stay in America. Eff Ukraine. Eff Russia.
If wishes were horses beggars would ride.
Its getting shrill —as long a Bakhmut holds Ukraine is OK—what what happens if it falls? What happens if the Ukraine armed forces can not retake lost lands? Or worse, what if Kiev falls—it could happen. Will Poland send in her troops? Will Germany? France? Italy? What if Hungary joins with Russia? What if Belarus joins the fight? The big wild card is China—what if she joins Russia? What do we have then—World War Three
During the last year Ukraine has enlisted hundreds of thousands of new recruits, but these new soldiers are being sent to the front with only minimal training. Ukraine does not have the number of trained, experienced soldiers required to mount a massive counter offensive. The lack of personnel is compounded by the inability of the West to supply ammunition and vehicles in sufficient numbers to sustain intense operations.
According to Andrei Martyanov, who has good sources in Russia, the 300,000 reservists called up last August have not yet been deployed to the front lines. The meaning is simple — Russia enjoys a massive advantage in terms of manpower, tanks, artillery, ammunition, missiles and combat air.
The fall of Bakhmut is a major blow, not just to Ukraine, but to the United States and NATO. This sets the stage for the West doing something desperate while Russia is content to continue to pulverize what is left of the Ukrainian military.
ARTICLE
Ex-FSB Officer Fears Russia Cannot Hold Bakhmut After Winter Thaw
3/4/23
https://ukrainetoday.org/2023/03/05/ex-fsb-officer-fears-russia-cannot-hold-bakhmut-after-winter-thaw/
3/4/23
Ukrainian servicemen fire a 105mm Howitzer towards Russian positions, near the city of Bakhmut, on March 4, 2023.
Russian military blogger Igor Girkin has played down the significance of reports that Russian troops have encircled Bakhmut and expressed doubt that the Donetsk city can be held by Moscow.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the financier of the Wagner Group of mercenaries, has claimed that the city had been surrounded by Russian forces during the fierce battle in which his troops have been involved.
His comments followed an assessment by analysts that Ukraine’s forces are preparing to withdraw from the city, pointing to how two bridges, one of which is a key supply route, had been destroyed.
But Girkin, who is a former FSB officer and ex-commander who led Russian-backed forces in the separatist Donetsk region in 2014, wrote a downbeat assessment of the purported Russian gains in the city fought over for seven months.
On his Telegram channel, Girkin wrote he did not “share such optimistic forecasts” as expressed by other military bloggers, about the Russian forces taking and holding Bakhmut. After the months of assault, he wrote, Wagner troops would have to take a break which could allow Ukraine to regroup and “exchange territory for time.”
He said that this had been “the plan of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine” who will then “make his move…probably after the end of the thaw,” referring to the spring.
“We must prepare to repel their strike,” added Girkin, who also goes by the name Strelkov, and has been highly critical of President Vladimir Putin‘s war effort and the actions of his commanders.
“Typical Girkin, isn’t very optimistic about the prospects of taking Bakhmut, as this only means Ukrainians have won valuable time for a counter-strike,” tweeted the account of War Translated.
Newsweek has contacted the Russian Defense Ministry for comment.
Despite the reports of Russian gains, Serhiy Cherevatyi, a spokesman for the eastern grouping of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, told CNN that Moscow’s forces have not taken Bakhmut and that fighting continues on the outskirts of the city.
He said that the city is still controlled “by Ukrainian defense forces: the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Border Guard and the National Guard.”
However, Volodymyr Nazarenko, a deputy commander in the National Guard of Ukraine, did not sugar-coat the scale of the task that Ukrainian troops face.
“Every hour in Bakhmut is like hell,” he told Ukrainian broadcaster Kyiv24, although he said that Russian forces had not crossed the Bakhmutka River. “Over the past few days, the front line has been stabilized thanks to our hard work and efforts,” he added.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-girkin-bakhmut-1785547
People have forgotten what long grinding wars are like. They don’t just end within one or two news cycles. The Russkies are playing for the long haul. (We know all about long grinding occupations).
I had been hearing two conflicting predictions:
1) Ukraine will simply fall back to the strong defensive lines that have been set up behind Bakhmut.
2) There are no more defensive lines. Everything rolls up like a map after Bakhmut falls.
Of course, now I'm hearing "It's just not going to fall". Uh huh. Sounds like Denial mixed with Option #2.
>People have forgotten what long grinding wars are like. They don’t just end within one or two news cycles. The Russkies are playing for the long haul. (We know all about long grinding occupations).
Sadly the Russians have two choices: Either kill every Ukrainian soldier until someone signs a peace treaty or have Russia split up and destroyed forever.
>Of course, now I’m hearing “It’s just not going to fall”. Uh huh. Sounds like Denial mixed with Option #2.
The roll-up part will start when the 750,000 Russians finally get orders to invade. For now, it’s just Wagner running around shooting whomever they can with artillery back up.
Think I’ll pass on this ‘expert.’
Larry Johnson (Sonar 21) is a VERY POOR Source
Larry Johnson quote: “All News is Made Up, Some of it is True.
IMHO, Johnson is not an unbiased source. He is connected to Sidney Blumenthal & a pro-clinton blogger.
Larry C. Johnson is long-time defender of Russia. He makes his appearances on RT.
“He has been vocal in his defense of Russia against allegations that a Vladimir Putin-ordered hacking campaign was conducted to disrupt the 2016 presidential election.
In the weeks before the inauguration, Johnson told state-controlled Russia Today that the U.S. conclusion that Russia interfered in the election was “a joke,” and he called the American intelligence community “stupid.”
In the same interview, Johnson said: “There’s no evidence on the side of Russia meddling in the U.S. election.”
*The U.S. intelligence community has concluded that Russia did meddle in the election.
Information con’t: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/white-house-vladimir-putin-election-hacking-donald-trump-233299
Johnson said he is not paid by RT for his appearances, and he doubts RT had any impact on the election given its low viewership in the U.S.
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Stalingrad 2?
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