Posted on 01/03/2023 1:27:59 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans
Dmitri (AKA War Translated): "Wagner's Prigozhyn explains why he is unable to take Bakhmut - a line of defence every 10 meters, hundreds of lines of defence across the city. Russians lack armoured vehicles and equipment."
The link takes you to an actual video, but the following is my transcript:
PRIGOZHYN: Everyone has a question – “When are you taking Artyomovsk [Bakhmut]?”
Artyomovsk is a fortress in every house. So the guy are fighting for every house. Sometimes, more than one day. Sometimes, fighting for weeks for a single house.
Took one house, second house, third house. What is “breaking through the defense?” They’ll tell you what it is.
It’s taking one house today – that is, breaking through the defense. And behind that house there’s more defense, right?
And not one defense. How many lines of defense in Artyomovsk?
If we say 500, we probably won’t be wrong. A line of defense every 10 meters.
We are lacking vehicles, BMP-3, and 100mm shells, in order to move through Artyomovsk quicker and with more confidence.
We are lacking ammunition and armored vehicles.
END TRANSCRIPT
Video at link: https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1610277981032747009
NOTE: Certain FR Putinists stated Bakhmut was going to fall several months ago, and lately now state there's no interest in taking the city, but just using it "as a meat grinder." Neither claim holds up to what Wagner's people are actually saying.
Please provide sources for this silly nonsense. The Russians need a war declaration before they can use 750,000 people? Any day now they’ll meet their initial goals from February? But they’ve already put in an initial 200,000 (couldn’t seal the deal) who were driven out of Kyiv, Kharkiv Oblast and Kherson, and now a 300,000 mobilized who we are told— not by Ukrainian sources, but by Russians— that 9 out of 10 are useless and that a second mobilization of 300,000 will be necessary in the near future just to stop a collapse of the front line.
But any day now, according to you, Russia is FINALLY going to declare war and something something will happen and blah blah blah nuclear war over Poland. LMAO.
When they started throwing prisoners and drunk conscripts into the firefight, it became obvious that their plan for victory is to trade a cubic meter of russian meat for every square meter of Ukrainian land.
You are assigning a far higher level of control to Biden than is actually possible. Foggy Bottom and the DoD/CIA are running this shit show, not Dementia Joe. He’s just the puppet, and you know it.
The CIA/WEF warmongers have been waiting for and planning all of this for 9 years now, they just needed an empty suit in the White Hut.
—”Hmmm. If they take it, sounds like a Pyrrhic victory. Looks like the Ukrainians are using Bakhmut to keep Russian forces pinned down, inflict casualties, and destroy Russian equipment.”
It does appear to be so...
With hard frozen ground they may be able to move armor in, but:
“Rochan Consulting, a firm that monitors the war, says that the urban terrain and Ukraine’s use of anti-tank squads has deterred Russia from employing tanks in the town, leaving infantry dangerously exposed.”
So the great and mighty Red Army can’t take one Ukrainian town becasue ‘too many houses’, but for sure next year they are gonna roll up the whole country all the way to the Polish border. Do I have that right?
—”One of the most brutal slugfests in the history of warfare.”
“Shelling of Bakhmut began in May 2022, but the main assault towards the city began on 1 August after Russian forces advanced from the Popasna”
The Motherland Calls, something I’ve wanted to visit has 200 steps up the hill representing the 200 days of the Battle of Stalingrad.
Depending on how it is counted they are past the famous 200 days. 247 from May 2022, 155 from Aug 2022.
But not to worry, the Russians will adjust history to their liking, given the chance.
Russian logistics were not very good at Stalingrad and possibly improved since?
“Russian logistics were not very good at Stalingrad and possibly improved since?”
Germany’s logistics were much worse.
Why don’t they simply go around it?
“Why don’t they simply go around it?”
What, go into enemy territory, beyond their supply lines? C’mon man! Their flanking maneuvers would be cutoff.
They have to go direct from their front line into urban environment for the cover it affords their supply line.
UKRs have cover and concealment in the urban environment. They will bleed out the orcs.
Battle of Stalingrad was indeed a slug fest with brutal house to house fighting and urban warfare. The Russian General created rings of defense much like what is discribed. .
One axis of attack which is essential for the Russians to stop the flow of western weapons and supplies. That axis of attack is sitting there in Belerous, waiting for the freeze that will allow passage over the marshes and soft soils on possible 6 different axis of attack. You will see.
Have bothered to read what General Surovokin or Putin has been saying? Obviously, NO.
It takes too valuable time to address readily avilable information from the General’s statements.
Just one. Russia is still operating under the Special Operation with 160K soldiers. There 220K in Belerous which will attack along the Polish Uke boarder to seal it off so no weapons can come into Uke from Poland.
There 545K in Russia awaiting two things, no three. The government will end the SO. 2. The ground must be frozen and missile/artillery done all they can. 3. The government, like the USG, must authorize the use of the Army in Ukraine, which by the way if you followed the news, will take the Act of War. 1. Frozen Ground. 2. Suspend Sp Op. 3. Govt declaration of War allowing the Armed forces to give Ukraine a taste of Combined Arms, which the 160K did not.
An old friend of mine used to say, “When you are explaining, you are losing”’
You mean gay Nazi marriage right?
In before the Putin putas!
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