Posted on 03/05/2023 3:11:44 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
CHASIV YAR, Ukraine—Shielded by a small hill from Russian positions a half-mile away, a Ukrainian soldier spotted via drone feed a new foxhole that appeared overnight northwest of the embattled city of Bakhmut.
Three troopers of Russia’s Wagner paramilitary organization had crawled through no man’s land to establish a firing position, likely for a grenade launcher. The drone’s camera zoomed to Russian trenches behind.
“Corpses, corpses, corpses one atop another,” said Oleksiy, a soldier with Ukraine’s Third Storm Brigade who watched the footage and coordinated the response. “And now, look, these brave lads have come out our way.”
“They don’t even have their body armor on,” he shouted to a fellow trooper operating an American-made MK-19 grenade launcher above the staccato exchange of machine-gun fire. One of the bullets whizzed overhead. “Let’s hit them now.”
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Ukraine ping
Prigozhin demonstrates that, properly-motivated, even convicts can be put to good use in combat roles on the front lines. If they die, the state no longer has to spend large sums of money on their upkeep in prison. Those who survive are either unnaturally lucky or quick learners. Both are great assets at the front. Whatever anyone might think of his methods, Prigozhin’s the closest thing to an alchemist to be found in Putin’s inner circle - he has discovered how to turn shit into Shinola.
Displaying the effects of the ‘meat grinder’ in warfare.
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦☠️Retreat of the AFU from Bakhmut caught with artillery fire,since roads are under artillery control from "Wagner"
15 AFU soldiers demilitarised pic.twitter.com/dkOJXnTTsZ— AZ 🛰🌏🌍🌎 (@AZgeopolitics) March 5, 2023
LOLOL!!!
Proper leadership, proper training, flexible and adaptive doctrine and tactics probably also enters into it.
The butcher’s bill becomes more bloated. Can’t allow negotiations.
There was a FReeper who recently that Wagner PMC was mostly destroyed. I asked him for an independent source that could verify that Uke claim. He had none.
But if the claim is somehow true, then the Wagner PMC is even better than before.
🇷🇺 have advanced west of the city reaching the road between Bakhmut and Bohdanivka.
🇷🇺 have made further advances within the city both in the north and south.
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paywall
wsj hasn’t been much of an honest broker for news for a long time..globalist shills for msm especially green crap,free trade,open borders etal
sometimes their editorials are ok
30,000 rus KIA, exhausting the Ukraininans’ trigger fingers.
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