Posted on 05/20/2023 6:07:25 PM PDT by Mariner
Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday that the Wagner Group has seized Bakhmut with assistance from Russian troops, after a protracted monthslong battle over the eastern Ukrainian city.
“As a result of offensive actions by Wagner assault units, supported by artillery and aviation of the Yug Group of Forces, the liberation of Artyomovsk has been completed,” the ministry said in a post on Telegram, using the Soviet-era name for Bakhmut.
Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin had claimed in a video earlier in the day that his private mercenary company had “completely taken” the city.
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It's the Russian Iwo Jima.
Uh no it is not.
Some good news this weekend finally.
How so?
Just wait till the ground freezes…
/sarc
If Russia wants to win the war in Ukraine, they would allow Yevgeny Prigozhin to recruit more troops. But they’re not letting him doing that. So they’re running out of steam in Ukraine.
That Ukrainian counteroffensive better get started soon. We need to send them billions of dollars and all the weapons we can spare and some that we can’t.
They’ve got to wait till the F-16s arrive.
Iwo Jima was far more strategically important.
Only if you’re morally bankrupt.
It is one thing to say that we should not be involved. It is quite another to actually cheer Russian aggression.
Anyone care to guess where the Russians will shrink their armed forces yet again?
There’s probably a dead Russian soldier for every 100 tons of rubble.
Ah, you believe globohomopedos are moral.
Noted.
The WEF/WTO needs to kill Ukrainian Men in order to confiscate the land.
I think if you believe this war has something to do with “homos” you are a demented idiot.
Dear Williams, you seem to be under the impression I am concerned about what a zeeper thinks.
Not so.
May.
The Navy and Marines were widely criticized for expending so many men, so much time and so much material for an island that was not part of the strategic goal.
The harbor and two airfields were never used for further operations.
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