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Update from Ukraine | Ukraine goes in | Wagners should run or they will be trapped in Bakhmut
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1. Ukrainian drone operator leads Russian soldier to safety after he surrendered near Bakhmut
Daily Mail
2.37M subscribers
May 12, 2023 9:00 a.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq1tbXZcxh4
Ukrainian drone operator leads Russian soldier to safety after he surrendered near Bakhmut. A Ukrainian drone unit has released footage showing a Russian soldier surrendering near Bakhmut.
The footage was released by the 30th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, who are operating near the besieged city in eastern Ukraine. Filmed from the drone’s camera, the soldiers is seen in a trench pleading with the operator not to drop an explosive on him.
2. Ukrainian army can surround Bakhmut at any time, build defense lines - head of Wagner
Kanal13
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May 13, 2023 12:01 a.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1DJplCQUl4
VIDEO WITH COMMENTARY
12 May: Ukrainians CRUSHED RUSSIAN FLANKS | War in Ukraine Explained
Reporting from Ukraine
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May 12, 2023 10:00 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En1vsgk8nSI
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I am Ukrainian. My country has been invaded by Russia. In this video I will tell you what happened on the four hundred and forty third day of the war.
Day 443: May 12
Today there is a lot of good news from the Bakhmut direction. Here, Ukrainians leveraged their newly gained territories on Bakhmut’s northern flank and increased the scale of the operation even more.
After Ukrainians saw how Russian troops from the 9th Motorized Rifle Brigade started to abandon their positions, it was decided to maintain the momentum and push along the lake. Due to the problems with communication, some Russian detachments did not understand what was going on and still defended their trenches in front of the Khromove road, even though they were already virtually surrounded.
Ukrainians reinforced this region with mortar crews and unleashed devastating fire on the remaining Russian troops. Due to the density of the coverage of these isolated strong points, Russian soldiers were quickly eliminated, and the Khromove road was completely unblocked.
After a quick regrouping, Ukrainians opened two lines of attack: north of the lake and south of the lake. When it comes to the northern attack, Ukrainians rolled out their tank and undermined Russian defense with rapid fire, while an armored fighting vehicle brought the Ukrainian assault unit closer to the enemy positions. As a result, Russian troops were eliminated, and the positions became under Ukrainian control.
When it comes to the southern attack, Ukrainians almost reach the settlement of Berkhivka with little resistance. Several hours later, Russian forces attempted to make a counterattack and used 2 trucks to deliver several assault units to the tree line. However, Ukrainians immediately responded with artillery fire, and Russian soldiers ran away before the Ukrainians even managed to correct their fire, so they didn’t incur any losses.
Later, the Russian Ministry of Defense published a situational report and claimed that during the previous day, Ukrainians conducted 25 attacks in the Bakhmut direction, engaging up to 3 battalions. They claimed that all attacks were repelled, however, Russian forces still conducted a tactical retreat to better positions.
In the evening, the Head of the Wagner Group, Prigozhin, said that the Russian Ministry of Defense lied, and in reality, Ukrainians penetrated Russian defenses by multiple kilometers because their troops abandoned their positions, and that Ukrainians not only completely unblocked the main supply line, but also established control over the tactical heights. If we look at the topographic map, we can see that this is true, and now Ukrainians control positions that are more than 50 meters higher than Russian positions in Berkhivka and Bakhmut. And since attacking the lowlands is much easier, Ukrainians threaten to cut Bakhmut from the north in the near future. Prigozhin also reported that his forces advanced by around 100 meters in their area of responsibility.
Ukrainian Spokesman for the Eastern Group of Forces reported that over the last 3 days of active counterattacks, Ukrainians had freed 17.3 square kilometers of the ground, excluding today’s significant advances.
Several hours ago, a fighter from the famous 93rd Mechanized Brigade reported that one of their Rifle Battalions had reinforced the Khromove region, which clearly indicates further development of the counter-encirclement operation. The ability to quickly maneuver between the flanks and change the location of the next big counterattack once again paid off and allowed Ukrainians to regain the initiative and improve their tactical position significantly.
Ukrainian soldiers can liberate Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions. We know what it takes - Zaluzhny
News Censor.
Valery, Zaluzhny
12.05.23 23:38
https://censor.net/ua/news/3418078/ukrayinski_voyiny_mojut_zvilnyty_krym_donetsku_i_lugansku_oblasti_my_znayemo_scho_dlya_tsogo_potribno
According to the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, this must be done for Ukrainian children from the occupied territories.
Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny in an interview with Dmitry Komarov, which was broadcast on May 12 by 1+1, assured that Ukrainian soldiers can liberate the occupied territories of Ukraine and know what is needed for this, the censor reports.
When asked how to force the enemy to leave, Zaluzhny replied::
“To do this, there are commanders who must think and make the right decisions. For this purpose, conditions must be created, ammunition, equipment, and weapons must be provided. There must be many other circumstances to do this, but all this can be done. All this is described in many textbooks. Of course, each case has its own variation of certain actions. And I can assure you that it is the Ukrainian soldiers who are the people who can do this. They can. The only question is what they need to do it in order to do it faster. We know what it takes. We know what is needed to liberate Crimea, what is needed to liberate the Donetsk region, the Luhansk region, but this is a very, very large amount of work that will not be done quickly.”
In response to a clarifying question about whether the Ukrainian military really knows what to do and is doing their job, thanks to which the Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions will return to Ukraine’s control, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said: “of course, absolutely.”
He added that this must be done for Ukrainian children from the occupied territories.
Barb what will you be doing in six months?
Where God leads, I will follow.
And, you?
You only reveal what you stand for in Sicily
ARTICLE
Ukraine war live: Russian troops retreat from Bakhmut ‘in bad order’
The Telegraph
5-13-2023 Updated 7:00 a.m. EST
Russian forces have withdrawn from their positions on the southern flank of Bakhmut in bad order over the last four days, the Ministry of Defence has said.
The retreat has seen Ukrainian forces regain at least a kilometre of territory, the ministry said in its daily intelligence update.
“The area has some tactical significance because it was a Russian bridgehead on the western side of the Donets-Donbas Canal, which marks the front line through parts of the sector,” the intelligence update said.
Ukrainian forces appear to have gone on the attack in Bakhmut, pushing Russian forces back after months of drawn-out street battles in the eastern town.
I mostly agree.
But it should be noted that leaders throughout history when asked about the size of their force always comment; they wanted more before going in.
An old rule, to overrun an enemy you need the next larger unit.
For a squad, you need a platoon, for a platoon a company, for a company, a battalion...
SCALES UP QUICKLY AND YOU ARE NEVER CERTAIN YOUR REPORTS ARE ACCURATE.
Horrors of Putin’s torturers revealed in new report: Female Ukrainian soldier was raped for three days straight and a prisoner due for execution after begging for death was told he had not ‘seen all seven circles of hell yet’
-Dignity reported the fates suffered by Ukrainians held prisoner by Putin’s troops
-Over 700 instances of torture and human rights violations were documented
Daily Mail
Chris Pleasance
04:29 EDT, 13 May 2023 | Updated: 07:18 EDT, 13 May 2023
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12071573/Horrors-Putins-torturers-revealed-new-report-Ukraine.html
Burned with hot irons, choked with gas masks, beaten so badly they suffered heart attacks, and forced to lie in the blood of an executed cellmate.
These may sound like scenes from a horror movie, but in fact, they are the very real fates suffered by Ukrainians held prisoner by Russian troops in occupied areas of the country.
They are among 725 cases of torture, ill treatment, summary execution, and other human rights violations documented by Dignity, a Danish anti-torture group, in a new report.
In one case, a prisoner and armed forces veteran told how he was tortured so badly he begged for death - but was kept alive by his tormentors who bragged ‘you haven’t seen the full seven circles of hell yet!’
In another, a detainee recalled being forced to listen to a female Ukrainian soldier being raped for three days straight before she was dragged away and never heard from again.
Therese Rytter, legal director of Dignity, said the use of torture by Russian troops was widespread, systematic, and ‘may thus amount to crimes against humanity’.
For its report, Dignity interviewed 121 victims of Russian abuse, including in official detention centres such as prisons and police stations, and unofficial detention centres such as school basements, houses, and government buildings.
READ MORE: On the run: Putin’s forces flee Bakhmut ‘in bad order’
They found the use of torture by Russian forces was a matter of routine, used against members of the military, police or government officials to force them to collaborate or as revenge, and against civilians to intimidate them or to extract information.
In one of the most extreme cases, a man who served as a military volunteer in Mariupol before he was captured told how Russians kidnapped him from his jail cell and held him for five months during which he was tortured - sometimes for days on end.
The man recalled being bound, gagged, beaten, strangled with electrical wire until he passed out, then doused in water to wake him up only so the torment could start over again.
He said: ‘On the third day, I asked my tormentors … [to] finish me off, because I didn’t have anything to tell them.
‘[One of the torturers] called one of his supervisors [and] showed me to him through the phone. The one on the phone just nodded and said nothing.’
The man expected to be killed, but his jailors ignored the order and carried on abusing him.
‘They kept torturing me,’ he said. ‘My hands were turned back and shackled. I was laid on the floor face down, strangled with wire from the extension cable.
‘When I started to lose consciousness, they said: “Wait. It’s too early. You haven’t gone through all seven circles of hell yet”.’
Another, kept in a prison colony in Zaporizhzhia, told investigators: ‘I heard a female soldier being raped. This lasted for about three days.
‘Then I couldn’t hear her anymore and I don’t know what happened with her.’
In the opening days of Putin’s war, Russian troops took control of 11 jails, 100 police stations, and dozens of secure psychiatric hospitals across swathes of Ukraine.
But, since the despot expected to conquer the entire nation within hours, there was no plan to deal with the thousands of people locked up in these places.
Inmates told how they were ignored for weeks even as food and medicines ran low, but in late April and early May the Russians arrived and things went from bad to worse.
Prisoners in one jail in occupied Kherson told how the arriving guards ordered everyone to get on the floor but shot one inmate in the head through a window before he could comply.
Those in the cell recalled how their new captors forced them to remain laying in the man’s blood for six hours alongside his corpse before forcing them to clean up pieces of his skull and brains with their bare hands.
One said: ‘That day, at lunchtime, Russian soldiers came to our [prison]... The military threw grenades, fired machine guns. They ordered us not to look out of the window.
‘One prisoner was killed through a window from outside. His corpse remained in the cell one more day, and everyone who was in that cell was forced to stay there.’
Another said: ‘Two pieces of skull were on the floor. Everything around was covered in blood and brain. Everyone got on the floor, we laid there until about six o’clock in the evening, lying on the floor, all in blood.
‘I cleaned the brains and a piece of the back side of the skull from the floor with my own hands.’
Once the Russians had established their authority, they used routine beatings as a means of keeping control - with a common method being to line people up facing a wall with their arms and legs spread before striking their back with batons.
An inmate at the same Kherson jail where the man was shot recalled being beaten so badly that he ‘had blood in my urine for a month and a half’.
Gusein Abdullaiev, a foreign student held in Mariupol, said he witnessed a man who suffered a heart attack during one beating - and when he tried to help the man ‘I was beaten even harder.’
A prisoner at a different Kherson jail said simply: ‘They beat us for everything and for nothing.’
As the war dragged on Russian forces began detaining Ukrainians themselves, ranging from alleged members of the armed forces to civilians and community leaders.
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#37 - 😂😆🤣😂
You have outdone yourself. That’s freakin’ hilarious!
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