Posted on 04/06/2023 11:03:25 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
The head of Russia's private Wagner militia said on Thursday that Ukrainian forces were not abandoning the city of Bakhmut but that, even if they did, he would need more support from the regular military before trying to advance further.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had on Wednesday raised the prospect of a withdrawal from the city, saying Kyiv would take the "corresponding" decisions if its forces risked being encircled by Russian troops.
Wagner forces are leading the battle for the city, which has become the bloodiest of the 13-month war, and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has said its capture would open up the battlefield and allow Russia to advance further into eastern Ukraine.
But Yevgeny Prigozhin, who has accused the military top brass of ineffectiveness bordering on treason in recent months, said this was still some way off.
"It must be said clearly that the enemy is not going anywhere," he said on his Telegram channel.
He said Ukrainian troops had organised staunch defences inside the city, particularly along railway lines and in high-rise buildings in the west of the city, and that, if they fell back, they would take up new positions in the outskirts and in Chasiv Yar to the west.
"That's why, in my opinion, there's no talk for now of any [Russian] offensive."
Prigozhin made clear that he was not yet satisfied with the support he was receiving from Russia's mainstream forces, including those attacking adjacent areas of the front.
He raised three perennial complaints - flank protection, command structure, and ammunition supplies.
"The first question is to make sure that our flanks are well protected (that's with a big exclamation mark)," he said.
"The second is to make sure that our command is properly organised."
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One with a Chinese garden in the middle of it?
I seem to remember Josep Borrell saying something about, "Europe is a garden. We have built a garden. Everything works."
What a dope, right?
I think he may have some sort of disease that will kill him in less than a year.
Or a full bladder due to stage 4 prostate cancer.
It’s time to GO HOME , Russia
Bingo!
Or a catchu tune? Sheesh. I mean Xish.
FReeper neo-Stalinists: WINNING!!!
“Why would Xi put these Euro Dogs at such a Ginormous table?”
To remind the wimp running western white nations that what they are looking at is the flushed toilet bowl in which they are swirling thanks to their disastrous liberal policies and unfettered immigration from the third world.
Pedophile Biden’s say we are winning with a transvestite president in charge no less.
I think your assessment's wrong. That is a classic sign of ovarian cancer and terminal toenail fungus so it is clear that he is already dead in that picture.
Time to break out in dance to celebrate the 17th death of Hitler Putin! Take THAT, Putin!!!
Animals Zelensky let run around Ukraine...
Zeepers are saddened by his erasure.
🤣👍
Russians have used Bakhmut as bait and have been playing the same sort of game that farm kids play when they put a big piece of cheese in the middle of a barn floor and sit there with shotguns on the edge of the loft and shoot all the mice and rats...
You keep posting lies.
Pyshnyi was the head of Ukraine’s Oschadbank from 2014 to 2019, before being appointed to the top banker role, and that ain’t him in the photograph.
There is zero context given about the photo, either about who took the photograph, the identity of the man or any evidence that he was in fact driving or exiting the vehicle.
the caramel gold-plated Rolls-Royce Ghost, which is thought to be worth more than half a million U.S. dollars, belongs to a Ukrainian confectionary business owner Hennadii Vatsak.
The claim was also soon rescinded by the MediaKiller Telegram channel, which cited “insider information” to suggest that the elite vehicle in fact belongs to Vatsak (though offered no other supporting evidence).
The caramel gold-plated “Ghost” was previously featured in an in-depth October 2022 article by a Ukrainian automobile-focussed publication TopGir, which included the photo of the car, as well as other caramel gold-colored supercars that it alleged are owned by Vatsak.
Furthermore, the narratives suggesting that U.S. military and financial aid went towards the purchase of the “luxury car” are provably false, as its most recent purchase predates both the Russia-Ukraine war and Pyshnyi’s appointment to his government role
Why are you constantly posting lying memes?
It should be quite obvious... You don’t keep asking for help if you’re winning...you don’t have to be 4* general to do the math...Political Leaders, NATO, Zelenskiy all knew what would happen to Ukrainian army personnel, Zelenskiy sentenced them to death the minute he sent them to fight against Russia,...common sense would ask - How Ukraine and their military fools think they can stop Russia?
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