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Russian Wagner Group leader says his troops will pull out of Ukraine's Bakhmut in days
CBC news ^ | May 5, 2023

Posted on 05/05/2023 7:24:03 AM PDT by jerod

'In the absence of ammunition they're doomed to perish senselessly,' Yevgeny Prigozhin says

Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of Russia's Wagner Group mercenary force, said in a sudden and dramatic announcement on Friday that his forces would pull out of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut that they have been trying in vain to capture since last summer.

Prigozhin said they would withdraw on May 10 — ending their involvement in the longest and bloodiest battle of the war — because of heavy losses and inadequate ammunition supplies. He asked defence chiefs to insert regular army troops in their place.

"I declare on behalf of the Wagner fighters, on behalf of the Wagner command, that on May 10, 2023, we are obliged to transfer positions in the settlement of Bakhmut to units of the defence ministry and withdraw the remains of Wagner to logistics camps to lick our wounds," Prigozhin said in a statement...

(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: 15thmonth; bahkmutholds; bakhmut; cantcapture; herecomestheclowncar; marcusmaxiclown; putinclowncar; russia; sovietunion; ussr; winning
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To: PIF
General Mizintsev is now a commander in the PMC.

After stealing ammo from the Russian MOD and selling it to Prigo. It's all starting to make sense now.
41 posted on 05/05/2023 8:28:19 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: jerod

You don’t air your dirty laundry in public if you are smart.


42 posted on 05/05/2023 8:30:38 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: PIF
Oddly the two pictures of General Mizintsev don’t match ...

Maybe the real Mizintsev caught a terminal case of window cancer for stealing from the MOD and is no longer with us.
43 posted on 05/05/2023 8:31:41 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Bulwyf

Living as slaves in the filth and FSB torture chambers of the Russian World isn’t peace. That’s why Ukrainians defend themselves against another genocidal Russian invasion of their lands.


44 posted on 05/05/2023 8:32:00 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Cronos; struggle
you do realize that the attackers lose more people than defenders?

That's old-school thinking, timebot.

45 posted on 05/05/2023 8:33:28 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: marcusmaximus; PIF
The question that I would have is: "Where is the ammo now?"

Deputy Prime Minister Hanna Malyar said that Ukrainian forces destroyed a Wagner ammunition storage near Bakhmut.

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1654486451667578891

46 posted on 05/05/2023 8:33:31 AM PDT by FtrPilot
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To: jerod

These comments wow. Freepers upset that Russian mercenaries are pulling back from a sovereign nation they brutally invaded .
Reagan would slap you on both sides of your face if he was in front of you .


47 posted on 05/05/2023 8:34:55 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: Cronos

>you do realize that the attackers lose more people than defenders?

Uh, you’re assuming that the Russian Army is moving. Only expendable mercs are attacking, the Russian Army is just dumping artillery on targets their drones are spotting.


48 posted on 05/05/2023 8:38:16 AM PDT by struggle
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To: crz
you either burn to death or have your guts sucked right out your mouth

you sounds like you're actually enjoying that thought

you really don't like people, do you?


49 posted on 05/05/2023 8:39:09 AM PDT by canuck_conservative (there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
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To: FtrPilot
Interesting.


50 posted on 05/05/2023 8:39:10 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: Fido969

I can’t help feeling that all the drama between Wagner and the Russian MOD is stage theater. Are they baiting Ukraine to send even more forces into Bakhmut? It looks that way.


51 posted on 05/05/2023 8:39:17 AM PDT by Palmetto State Conservative
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To: FtrPilot

The question that I would have is: “Where is the ammo now?”

Deputy Prime Minister Hanna Malyar said that Ukrainian forces destroyed a Wagner ammunition storage near Bakhmut.


In Heaven?


52 posted on 05/05/2023 8:49:01 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

So if pro Ukraine Freepers are Zeepers —

— does that mean pro-Putin Freepers are Peepers?

Maybe that’s why so many shirtless Putin pix get posted on here!


53 posted on 05/05/2023 8:56:53 AM PDT by Old West Conservative
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To: FtrPilot

Blowing in the breezes as ashes tend to do

They blew it up, Jim


54 posted on 05/05/2023 8:58:49 AM PDT by Old West Conservative
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To: Vermont Lt
What is Russia fighting for?

The same

55 posted on 05/05/2023 8:58:59 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: HereInTheHeartland; jerod
Reagan would slap you on both sides of your face if he was in front of you

the old asinine "what would Reagan do?" appears again.

Reagan wasn't a war-monger. He was anti-communist, and communism died 30 years ago. So wat would Reagan have done? He wouldn't be involved in deep-state coups and trouble-making in places that did not concern us. He would be standing with real small government conservatives like Rand Paul, or even Donald Trump and RFK JR.

56 posted on 05/05/2023 9:04:13 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

I will guarantee that Reagan wouldn’t be in favor of letting the evil empire invade neighboring countries .
Just because “they aren’t communist “ anymore means nothing relative to the threat they pose .
Same thuggish Russia.


57 posted on 05/05/2023 9:11:01 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: PGR88

trouble-making in places that did not concern us

Like the proxy war in Afghanistan? Or Beiruit?

Or bombing Libya?


58 posted on 05/05/2023 9:13:51 AM PDT by dominusobiscum (A Christians true heart can be revealed by how they treat others anonymously on discussion forums.)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Yes.Communist or not, as long as the Russians have nukes pointed at us, I would think Reagan would be helping Ukraine.


59 posted on 05/05/2023 9:15:43 AM PDT by dominusobiscum (A Christians true heart can be revealed by how they treat others anonymously on discussion forums.)
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To: PGR88

No, Reagan would not be siding with Russian militarism and rebuilding the evil empire, he knew the threat in Europe was Russia.


60 posted on 05/05/2023 9:26:52 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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