Posted on 05/11/2023 3:22:22 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
The divisions between Russia’s defense ministry and its notorious Wagner group continue to play out in public with mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin suggesting Tuesday that Russian forces have fled their posts in Bakhmut.
In a video posted to the Telegram messaging app, the once top ally to President Vladimir Putin claimed that units from Russia’s military "fled from one of our flanks" and exposed his forces to Ukrainian assaults, which he said were "tearing up the flanks," according to multiple reports.
Prigozhin's claims of a Russian retreat were echoed by Ukraine's Third Assault Brigade, which said that forces from Russia's 72nd Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade fled Bakhmut Tuesday.
"The Third Assault Brigade thanks you for publicizing our success at the front," the brigade said in a direct message to Prigozhin on Telegram, adding that "Wagnerites" were also among the troops that abandoned their posts
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The other Larry Johnson, ex CIA sometimes has articles from his blog posted FR.
He is convinced Russia will win. we’ll see.
could this be Russian strategy? - in face of major attack withdraw to pre-planned positions exposing the attackers to fire from the flanks - just saying
That other Larry Johnson is a moron and has been wrong about everything.
Nope, the Ukrainians caught the 72nd brigade in a troop rotation, attacked, and routed it, blowing a big hole in the southern Bakhmut lines, and rolling up Wagner’s flank. No strategy about it, just incompetence.
That other Larry Johnson is a moron and has been wrong about everything.
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If that is the case, ( the CIA being incomplete fools, as you suggetJohnson is ) , their huge involvement in Biden’s war WILL most certainly end in failure.
Hard to deny given that it’s all on video.
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