Posted on 05/20/2023 5:54:47 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
The summary of the 451st day in Bakhmut, as of 22:00 – 20th May 2023 (Kyiv time).
Due to the changes in the city of Bakhmut, we’re releasing an extra summary solely focused on the Bakhmut. The classic summaries remain bi-daily.
- Wagner mercenaries raised its flags on the western edge of the city near Khromove, residential area in the western part and on other places. Ukrainian troops have withdrawn towards the heights in the west and Ivanivske settlement. (source)
-Ukrainian artillery shelled enemy soldiers west of Bakhmut Industrial College. (source)
-The leader of Wagner mercenaries announced the capture of Bakhmut today. Ukrainian officials denied such claims, saying they still control part of the city.
-Based on the available footage and as of writing of this summary, there has been no proof that Wagner mercenaries captured the plane monument area on the south-western outskirts contested.
Fox News: We are ready to call it. Bakhmut will go for Biden.
An overview of Bakhmut taken on May 8, 2022.
Ukraine is simply not going to admit they lost Bakhmut.
Too much national pride involved.
Burning homes and destroyed buildings on May 15, 2023.
A Bakhmut school and apartment buildings as seen on May 8, 2022. 
A demolished school and smoldering apartment buildings as seen on May 15, 2023
University buildings and a radio tower as seen on May 8, 2022. 
The same scene a little more than a year later, on May 15, 2023
The Grisly Goddess of Kiev signs in for the latest propaganda feed of nonstop self posting bullshatzky Yee haw.
Mercenaries from Wagner spearheaded the Russian offensive. Prigozhin tried to use the battle for the city to expand his own clout amid the tensions with the top Russian military leaders whom he harshly criticized.
“We fought not only with the Ukrainian armed forces in Bakhmut. We fought the Russian bureaucracy, which threw sand in the wheels,” Prigozhin said Saturday 5-20-2023.
The relentless Russian artillery bombardment left few buildings intact amid ferocious house-to-house battles. Wagner fighters “marched on the bodies of their own soldiers.”
School No. 12 and apartment buildings in Bakhmut on May 8, 2022. 
The same scene on May 15, 2023.
Original photo views of Ukraine created Bakhmut vs Russia creation of Artyomovsk.
Of further interest, I wonder what the International Register of Damages will access the damages of Bakhmut as Russia is held accountable for aggression through reparations to Ukraine and its citizens?
Russia has taken Bakhmut.
Ukraine people will soon hang Zelensky.
Bakhmut has fallen.
“ Original photo views of Ukraine created Bakhmut vs Russia creation of Artyomovsk.
Of further interest, I wonder what the International Register of Damages will access the damages of Bakhmut as Russia is held accountable for aggression through reparations to Ukraine and its citizens?”
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I’m guessing you’ve not given the least consideration to the likelihood that it will actually be Russia that will be rebuilding that city… just like they’re currently energetically rebuilding the city and port of Mariupol?
Oh… and thank you for not posting pictures of the many, many thousands of graves of the Ukrainian men and boys that Zelensky sacrificed in the meat grinder that is represented in your “after” pictures. I pray for your soul as you continue your relentless cheerleading for this horrible war.
Even if the Ukrainians, who never tell the truth, were in this case, only a fool doesn’t realize that Russia does or will control Artyomovsk and will remain part of the Russian Federation for as long as any of us are still breathing.
Who will repopulate Ukraine after after Zelensky sends every Ukraine Male,
Young or old, to their deaths?
“repopulate Ukraine?”
Putin can’t even repopulate Russia! LOL
You Russian fascists are really brazen. Bakhmut was “liberated” only in the
sense that Warsaw was “liberated” in 1939.
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