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Russia's Prigozhin Says Bakhmut Territories Captured as Promised, Will Leave Zone
US News ^ | 5/21/2023 | Reuters

Posted on 05/21/2023 12:08:03 PM PDT by marcusmaximus

The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group said on Sunday that his forces had captured all the territory in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut as promised and would leave the conflict zone later this week.

"Wagner has made no advances. Wagner today captured no territory. We have captured all the territory we promised to capture, right up to the last centimetre," Yevgeny Prigozhin said in an audio message posted on Telegram messaging app.

"As we stated yesterday. We are handing over our positions to (Russia's) Defence Ministry and on the 25th (of May) we are leaving the conflict zone."

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bakhmut; gerasimov; may25; prigozhin; putin; shoigu; wagner
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To: delta7

Russia lost a bunch of their prisoners. Pretty smart way to fight actually.


21 posted on 05/21/2023 12:35:43 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: JonPreston
Zaluzhny?

I hope you don't think that Zaluzhny was calling any of the shots in Ukraine.
22 posted on 05/21/2023 12:35:53 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: JonPreston

“Why would he stay sitting on a pile of bricks?”

I was just going to ask about Bakhmut’s infrastructure and buildings that are remaining. From the sat photos, not too
much.

5.56mm


23 posted on 05/21/2023 12:37:28 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go)
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To: JonPreston
Sergey Rusov, one of Girkin's friends has a better explanation:

That is what your friends in Russia and the Russian held territories think.

24 posted on 05/21/2023 12:37:54 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: JonPreston

You’re a Russian pig.


25 posted on 05/21/2023 12:39:01 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: freeandfreezing

You told me Bakhmut would hold. What happened?


26 posted on 05/21/2023 12:47:38 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Williams

Name calling. That’s all you do.


27 posted on 05/21/2023 12:48:13 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: for-q-clinton
But when the war started Russia was clueless. Now they are getting better. So Joe bRiben has helped Russian military improve and put our military capability at risk.

Russia wasn't clueless - it's been winning for a long time now. Now that the truth is reaching the public, and the public will realize they've been conned out of billions of dollars, disinformationists have to make up excuses for why they claimed the Ukrainians were winning all this time.

So, the talking points of Ukie trolls is now, "We taught Russia everything they know about fighting...."

Yes, the losing army is taking credit for honing the skills of the winning Russian army.

28 posted on 05/21/2023 12:49:13 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: marcusmaximus

So, the light infantry group known as Wagner kicked the snot out of the Uke’s, but also NATO


29 posted on 05/21/2023 12:59:05 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: marcusmaximus

Pretty damn impressive that pardoned convicts armed only with shovels and led by a dude with stage 23 cancer were able to grind down the best of the Ukrainian armed forces who were armed with the NATO wonder weapons while taking the most heavily fortified urban area in the world.

That’s what the fake legacy news told me.


30 posted on 05/21/2023 1:02:01 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: ransomnote

You may not remember their sending troops into Chernobyl and their failed attempt to take Kiev. And them losing Kherson.


31 posted on 05/21/2023 1:02:20 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: marcusmaximus

that would be Ukraine...........who retreated after a major whoop ass pounded on them.


32 posted on 05/21/2023 1:05:02 PM PDT by davidb56
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To: marcusmaximus
What are they running away from, Marcus? Ghosts of all the Ukrainian's that died there? 😂

This spin is as ridiculous as saying the Azov Nazis that surrendered in Mariupol orderly evacuated on buses.

You are just trolling? You're not really stupid enough to this, right?

33 posted on 05/21/2023 1:08:36 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: 2banana

#30. We’ll said


34 posted on 05/21/2023 1:08:44 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: marcusmaximus

What Zelensky getting? There are only Ukrainian skeletons left in what used to be Bahkmut.


35 posted on 05/21/2023 1:09:32 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: JonPreston

You earned it. Wear it.


36 posted on 05/21/2023 1:09:52 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Kazan

Childish remarks as usual.
How’s Russia this time of year?


37 posted on 05/21/2023 1:10:36 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: adorno
What it sounds like is that the Wagner group was about to give up and run

You're trolling. No one is stupid enough to believe that!

You act like there aren't satellite feeds and cameras there.

38 posted on 05/21/2023 1:10:53 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Williams

More noise from an empty barrel.


39 posted on 05/21/2023 1:10:59 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: for-q-clinton

Some one in the USA should start a prison army. Look at all the freaks in our regular military and the condition they are in.


40 posted on 05/21/2023 1:12:15 PM PDT by davidb56
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