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Update from Ukraine | Wagner may be encircled around Bakhmut | Prygozhyn felt the trap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBUFzJTiliU
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March 6, 2023 Invasion Day 374 – Summary The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).
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Update from Ukraine | Wagner may be encircled around Bakhmut | Prygozhyn felt the trap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBUFzJTiliU
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March 6, 2023 Invasion Day 374 – Summary The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).
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ARTICLE
Infighting Among Putin Allies Reaches Fever Pitch
By Brendan Cole On 3/6/23 at 7:49 AM EST
If Putin is Overthrown These Five People Could Replace Him
https://www.newsweek.com/wagner-girkin-prigozhin-bakhmut-war-1785722
Wagner Group financier, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has hit back at criticism from Russian military blogger Igor Girkin amid their deepening spat over how Moscow’s forces are fighting in Ukraine.
The pair are high-profile Russian voices on Vladimir Putin’s invasion and are in an increasingly bitter public dispute over how the war is being fought.
Girkin is a former Federal Security Service (FSB) officer, and ex-commander who led Russian-backed forces in the separatist Donetsk region in 2014. Also known as Igor Strelkov, he wrote on Sunday that Prigozhin’s presence as head of the mercenary group was harming Moscow’s campaign to take Bakhmut.
In a Telegram social-media post, Girkin had condemned the political ambitions and actions of Prigozhin. He said these were driven by “psychopathy” and were detrimental to the “common cause of victory over Ukraine.”
Girkin’s post also called for the ousting of Russian Minister of Defence Sergei Shoigu. He said that Russian and Wagner troops should be withdrawn from the frontlines to be replenished and reorganized.
But when Prigozhin was asked on his Telegram channel about Girkin’s criticism, the Wagner founder responded on Monday that “it is simply indecent to discuss Strelkov,” using Girkin’s nom de guerre.
Prigozhin’s statement also said that Girkin had received offers to join Wagner and go to the front to take a more direct role in the war. Instead, the milblogger had chosen to “sit around and throw faeces.”
“So why should I comment? I don’t offend girls,” Prigozhin added. In a follow-up post, he said that ammunition promised for his troops had not yet arrived.
In February, Prigozhin had thanked members of the public for pressuring the Russian defense ministry into providing ammunition for his troops that he had long called for.
However, on Monday, Prigozhin wrote that there had been an ammunition order on February 23, but most of the ammunition has not been shipped. Prigozhin added that, so far, it was not clear whether the reasons were down to “ordinary bureaucracy or betrayal.”
A months-long battle for Bakhmut has been the focus for Prigozhin’s troops. The Wagner leader claimed that Russian forces had surrounded the Donetsk city, although this has been denied by Kyiv.
The Washington think tank had previously pointed to satellite imagery that showed the destruction of a destroyed railway bridge to the northeast of the city. The ISW said this showed that Ukrainian forces would retreat from the eastern bank of the Bakhmutka River.
However, the ISW added that Ukrainian troops were likely to be taking part in a “limited tactical withdrawal” from the city’s eastern part. Its continued defense of the city was strategic because it would further deplete Russian troop numbers and equipment.
Michael Kofman, director of the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analyses in Arlington County, Virginia, has just visited Bakhmut. He tweeted on Monday that ammunition shortages, contested lines of communication, and an attritional battle on unfavorable terrain “doesn’t play to Ukraine’s advantages as a force.”
Kofman added that Ukraine’s forces have “achieved a great deal” in expending Russian manpower and ammunition. “But strategies can reach points of diminishing returns,” he wrote. Given Ukraine wants to husband resources for an offensive, “it could impede the success of a more important operation.”
Newsweek has contacted the Russian and Ukrainian defense ministries for comment.
VIDEO
Map shows territorial shifts in Ukraine since war began one year ago
AP Associated Press
2.08M subscribers
Feb 24, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pfmQpennxM
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has covered a large part of the country’s territory. This animation shows areas occupied each day by Russian forces and areas recaptured in Ukrainian counteroffensives. Ukraine is readying another push with weapons from the West. (Feb. 24)
We shall see.
VIDEO
How is Putin killing his opponents? 5 years since the Skripal poisoning
TVP World
293K subscribers
3-6-2023 6:41 p.m. EST
5 years ago, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with Novichok. These events shaked the public opinion, showing that the Russian regime does not hesitate to use all means to eliminate its opponents.
VIDEO
I followed others! Interview with a collaborator who has been fighting against Ukraine since 2014
Lviv.Media
340K subscribers
3-6-2023 12:15 p.m. EST
Oleksandr Azarenkov is one of the collaborators who took up arms in 2014 and was mobilized on the eve of Russia’s full-scale invasion last year. In an interview with Liubomyr Ferens, he told how he lived in Donetsk before the war, explained how he became a collaborator, and described his fear of Europe.
00:00 Start
01:23 About mobilization in the occupied territories
05:13 About life in Donetsk before the war
06:11 Why did you go to fight against Ukraine in 2014?
11:43 Who is to blame for the start of the war?
15:32 “NATO and Russia fight for something”
17:36 About the role of Russia in separatism in Donbas
19:24 How did you decide to join the “militia”?
28:43 What do you dislike about NATO?
30:03 Why is the European Union frightening?
33:27 What is Russia fighting for?
37:17 How could the war be stopped 9 years ago?
40:14 How does separatism work?
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ARTICLE
Russian Conscript Opens Fire on His Comrades Near Ukraine Border—Report
By Isabel van Brugen On
3/6/23 7:23 AM EST
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-conscript-shoots-comrades-ukraine-border-kursk-1785734
A Russian conscript opened fire on his fellow soldiers in the Kursk region, near the border with Ukraine, killing one, according to local media reports.
Russian media outlets Baza and ASTRA reported Monday that overnight, a man drafted under President Vladimir Putin’s “partial mobilization” order, fatally shot a fellow soldier in the 37th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade of a Russian military unit stationed in the Kursk region’s Suzhansky district.
There have been multiple reports that soldiers drafted as part of Putin’s September 21, 2022, mobilization order are being sent into battle after receiving little to no training. Many have also been wrongfully conscripted. The Russian president ordered the mobilization of 300,000 reservists to fight in Ukraine. However, the figure in Putin’s decree has not been disclosed to the public, and many fear the figure is far higher.
According to preliminary reports, a 22-year-old conscript named Magomed M. thought he heard intruders near a guard post. He shouted “Stop, who’s there?” and opened fire when there was no response.
Volunteers have a military training in Rostov
Above, Russian volunteers participate in military training in Rostov, Russia on December 6, 2022. A Russian conscript opened fire on his fellow soldiers in the Kursk region, according to Russian media. STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images
A 19-year-old conscript from Tatarstan, Tamir G., was killed in the shooting, and a 22-year-old conscript from Novosibirsk, Vladislav K., was hospitalized.
“A misunderstanding between the soldiers arose,” Baza, which regularly posts information about security issues within the country, reported, noting that the conscript opened fire using a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
Just weeks ago in the Kursk region, six Russian soldiers were killed in an explosion that was accidentally set off while the men were using a cooking stove, Baza reported.
According to the outlet, the Russian soldiers, who were in a trench at the time, poured gasoline onto an open stove causing an explosion and fire. “Only two soldiers managed to run out into the street,” they wrote.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense told state-run news agency RIA Novosti that a fire broke out due to “a gross violation of safety requirements by the military of the Western Military District in the Kursk region.”
Russia’s Kursk region borders Ukraine, where fierce fighting continues for more than a year since Putin launched a full-scale invasion. The British defense ministry said in December that Russia had started to expand its defenses along its border with Ukraine amid apparent fears of an invasion and that elaborate trench systems were being dug by Russian troops in Belgorod, near the border.
In November, Andrey Kartapolov, chairman of Russia’s State Duma Defense Committee, said Russian conscripts might be sent to border regions including Kursk and nearby Belgorod.
ha ha
“Girkin had condemned the political ambitions and actions of Prigozhin.”
May their negative egos get the better of them....
May they destroy each other and Shoigu too!
SO MUCH JOY FOR YOU
OOPS! Thank you :)
There's been chatter about a possible Ukrainian pincer to cut-off Wagner's northern advance and possibly another to the south. If true, I wonder if it isn't happening with at least the tacit cooperation of Russia's army.
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I can’t believe Russia is this terrible. They can’t even take a city after 9 months of attacks. I thought for sure it would have fallen late last week, but it appears Russians may pull defeat from the jaws of victory.
For all of the dollars we have sent to Ukraine, we could have given every woman, in the USA, who gave birth, last year, $30,000.
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