Posted on 01/23/2023 8:31:31 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose Wagner Group of mercenaries has dominated headlines in Ukraine, has reportedly been sidelined by Vladimir Putin after failing to make good on his promises of military gains.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said Prigozhin's "star has begun to set" following his boasts that his forces could capture the Donetsk city of Bakhmut.
The think tank said on Sunday that Putin wanted to see what Prigozhin and his previous commander in Ukraine, General Sergey Surovikin could do after the conventional Russian military had suffered disastrous setbacks.
"Both efforts failed," the ISW said, as Prigozhin's attempts to seize Bakhmut were frustrated and Surovikin's air campaign to inflict suffering on Ukrainian civilians expended "most of Russia's remaining stocks of precision missiles." Around 80 per cent of Prigozhin's 50,000-strong force in Ukraine are reportedly convicts who have been thrown into assault operations around Bakhmut at high cost. Putin was prepared to test how the use of prisoners would play out in the war.
On January 11, Putin appointed Valery Gerasimov, demoting Surovikin, in a move that the ISW said showed the Russian president is putting his trust in "the conventional Russian military once more."
Prigozhin's social media posts, in which he touted his forces' purported gains and disparaged the Russian command in the field, suggested he fancied himself as someone who could be a big player in military affairs. The ISW said "those hopes now seem to have been delusional" with Wagner not getting the expected credit for gains in the town of Soledar, near Bakhmut.
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neither are Ritter.
You should try something beyond the propaganda that you post.
try to learn something
“”I wasn’t worried about any lofty national security objectives. Emptying our prisons and dumping the convicts in Afghanistan INSTEAD of sending our troops there would have saved us a bunch of money. And a few hundred thousand hardened criminals would have kept the Taliban busy.””
An army of hundreds of thousands of American prisoners.
You have zero knowledge of soldiering, the military, and war.
You appear to have no understanding of any of this at all.
“”God bless President Putin and the Wagner group, and may a pox be upon the houses of all their enemies.
21 posted on 1/23/2023, 10:43:22 AM by exPBRrat””
I think you speak for just about all of our hate America crowd.
FR has changed a lot.
I would like them to have gotten the jets trump wanted them to have but Biden has been blocking jets.
IMHO, American jets would have significantly escalated the hostility and given Putin the excuse to use larger weapons, perhaps even a battlefield nuke.
LOL, since when does meeting jets while you are invading a foreign country, justify nuclear war?
By the way, Trump at the time was talking about MiGs that Biden wouldn’t let them have.
Now jets might start arriving in Ukraine, including American-made foreign-owned jets.
If Biden will quit blocking this stuff.
Dead Russian = good Russian.
Bleed Russia dry, split it up, take the Crimea away, make Ukraine a full NATO member, embargo the rest of it back to the 10th century.
Yes, ISW is the pet project of “Cookies” Nuland.
Prigozhin thrown under the bus. LOL!
Correct.
But they do decent work.
A few acquaintances have suggested I follow them. Their job is do similar work for .gov.
S2 Underground is better for some things.
And yes, it is the Kagan family trust running the thing.
“God bless President Putin and the Wagner group, and may a pox be upon the houses of all their enemies.”
I remember when fr used to love america....and fr wants me to donate so i can read this treasonous crap?? I can go to du for that..
So sad for Putin’s chef, Yevgeny Prigozhin. This guy is a go getter, but throwing the bodies of his criminal recruits at the Ukrainian army, just ain’t working out.
May a pox of Libyan desert scorpions sting you all the way up your backside. A sting to your head will snap you out of your Putinista fantasies
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits.
The Ukrainians are not going to kill them with sticks and rocks,
The Russians are using mostly Iranian drones and Nora artillery shells.
How about Russia goes home and we all just stop?
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