Posted on 02/03/2023 7:29:14 AM PST by Navy Patriot
A Ukrainian soldier's account of the front line in Bakhmut has given rare insight into the tactics being employed by Russian soldiers in the eastern industrial city in the Donetsk region, which has, for months, been one of the war's hottest spots.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a think tank based in Washington, noted in its daily assessment of the conflict that Ukraine's Joint Forces Task Force posted an interview on February 1 with a Ukrainian serviceman operating in Bakhmut.
In his interview, the Ukrainian soldier said that the situation in Bakhmut has recently "radically changed." Russia has committed to the city competent fighters from the Wagner Group, a shadowy paramilitary outfit, and operatives from the Main Directorate of the Russian General Staff (GRU).
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Wagner Group The latest news on the Wagner Group. A Russian paramilitary organization, the Wagner Group is largely considered to be a pseudo private army for Russian President Vladimir Putin. With links to neo-Nazis and far-right extremists, the Wagner Group is believed to be financed by Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, who has links to Putin. The group has been accused of being used to hide certain atrocities conducted in the Russia-Ukraine war, to allow Russia deniability.
If true, seems strange these Russians would be pro Nazi. But then again, the source is Newsweek.
If true, seems strange these Russians would be pro Nazi. But then again, the source is Newsweek.
Why would that be strange? The Kremlin itself partnered Hitler’s Germany and fueled his war machine. Russia has used Nazi tactics through its history. Industrial scale mass murder, genocide, etc.
Your talking WWII.
One of the reasons Putin is in Ukraine now is because of Ukrainian Nazi nationals that are wanting to eliminate the Russian culture from eastern Ukraine.
And Putin isn’t “talking WW2”? Flying the Soviet flag? Deifying the butcher of Katyn? The reality this is just another Russian colonialist war of choice. Don’t be duped by the Kremlin’s gaslighting rhetoric. History, both modern and earlier, shows that Russians go “nazi” just fine whenever it suits them.
Why is it referred to as the Russian speaking east, if the majority are not Russian?
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Wagner attacks in three waves usually with arty in extremely close support
If last wave is unsuccessful they rely on arty
I’ve seen drone footage of uke conscript kids leaderless being pounded with dead comrades littered about as Wagner and certain death approaches yards away
Most arent even firing by then just wrapped up trembling in the mud or frozen trench
It’s pitiful
Most just high school junior And senior age
I can’t watch it frankly
I hope neocons are happy
All this spent youth on a forlorn hope
So fukcing stupid
Pointless
If ISW is admitting this it must be truly bad for ukrop
The woman deserves Goyas wall
“”Most arent even firing by then just wrapped up trembling in the mud or frozen trench
It’s pitiful
Most just high school junior And senior age””
You have been describing that detailed drone video for a long time, where can we see it?
It looks that way.
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