🇷🇺 advanced in the east of Bakhmut. It is possible that 🇺🇦 units have now withdrawn across the river.
🇷🇺 have advanced west of Berkhivka, confirming its capture some days ago.
Posted on 03/02/2023 5:11:55 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
In the besieged city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, the volunteers collecting the civilian dead risk becoming casualties themselves. “Where? Where?” demands Daniel Wilk, a Canadian driver, in shaky video footage shot recently inside the city and seen by the Guardian.
Wilk proceeds quickly, the anxiety of the situation visible in his movements as he is directed to a fence, cutting an uncertain path across the snow as another voice cries “no, no” repeatedly.
The bodies, when Wilk gets to them, have been cut in half by the force of the explosion that took their lives, and still lie where they fell three days before. Quickly they are bundled up in a sheet to be removed.
People who have managed to reach Bakhmut in the past week use the same word to describe what they have experienced: hell.
As flames and smoke ring into the sky from blazing buildings, the city, almost totally encircled by Russian forces, has been raked by constant gunfire and explosions in recent days. With roads leading to the city under constant fire from two sides, and with snipers in the streets, accessing the city has become ever more perilous for rescue teams, as speculation has mounted that Ukrainian forces will have to withdraw.
“We haven’t been able to reach the downtown area in recent days,” said Olha Danilova, who like Wilk works for a Ukrainian NGO, Dobryi Rukh, which has been working in Bakhmut for all of the seven months of the Russian assault.
“The closest we could get was 500 metres from the city centre. It’s very loud. Everything is being shelled with mortars. It’s inaccessible. We were trying evacuate civilian from down by the river last time. We couldn’t even get close.
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🇷🇺 advanced in the east of Bakhmut. It is possible that 🇺🇦 units have now withdrawn across the river.
🇷🇺 have advanced west of Berkhivka, confirming its capture some days ago.
I hope they play the 1812 overture as they capture the city to bring it back into the fold of Mother Russia.
Ukrainian troops in #Bakhmut, surrounded and out of ammunition. pic.twitter.com/F9CIcDDKa6— Russian Ukrainian War (@RussianUkraini2) March 3, 2023
The massive Winter Offensive the Russians were boasting about for months has been a complete failure on all other fronts.
It seems Putin has decided to throw everything he has into Bakhmut to win at least one propaganda victory.
The question now is how much of the Russian Army will be left after they do so?
You could make a case for Crimea. But this city is in Ukraine.
Question:
What country is Kherson in?
Sorry, but I root against trans-affirming globohomo-driven elites.
Seems like Putin wants to take all of Donbass and then ask for a cease fire. Maybe the Ukrainians have a capability of taking back all of the occupied territories but it may cost them hundreds of thousands lives. Why not build nuclear weapons instead? That's what I would do if I'm Zelensky.
Renfrew Since Apr 7, 2021 |
You sound like Hillary Clinton.
You sound like Putin.
So you're suggesting thermonuclear war?
Silly Neocon.
He's been posting since 2008. Maybe his screen name was stolen. Especially if his password was weak and he did not post for a while. I doubt it though. Why would a Russian post here in FR? They'll get more mileage over in social media. Just my two cents.
MAD works quite well. USSR vs USA. India vs Pakistan.
MinorityRepuplican is one of those posters who I clearly suspect as being a Soros bot. If you look at his past posts (like this) one you will see what I mean.
So you are suggesting nuclear war?
Am I a Russian bot also? How come Jon Preston was accused of it and I was not?
The Russians take DNA Samples from the dead Ukrainians, so it’s OBVIOUS why Ukraine doesn’t want the bodies back, since they’d be forced to explain why they sent them to their deaths.
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