Destroyed bridge in the center of Artemovsk…Not a good sign for the AFU
Ukrainians obviously blew up the bridge to slow down Russian advances. Overall, Putin is too soft on Ukraine, costing Russian lives.
The name of the city flipflopped between Artyomovsk and Bakhmut but Bakhmut certainly sounds like Bahamut.
Pre-2022, over 60% of the population there were Russian speakers, so why bother with Ukrainian names.
Makes sense, strategically of course I probably would do the same. Putin is walking a very fine line from putting all his chips in and or trying to play two hands in the same round (poker analogy)
In one hand he knows he has to play it cagey with the West, because the West is looking for an in point to make this war hotter by getting more players involved.
On the other hand he needs some decisive victories or morale is going to wane and dissipate soon.
Right now the only force that is lights out for Russia is the Wagner division, everything else such as Brigades, Battalions of the regular armies of Russia have been slogging along by going back and forth for months.
Victor Orban says it best and this video is a seminal moment in current day that will probably have historical significance should this war in Ukraine intensifies to alter the psyche of the world. (Sigh)
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AFU loading their comrades from the Bakhmt “meat grinder” Crude ambulance!
18+ “Wagner” cleans house after house…About the alleged retreat of the AFU from Soledar do not correspond to reality.
They are fighting, as in Bakhmut, for every house and entrance, as evidenced by video like this
Ukraine is running out of proper military vehicles and using civilian pickup trucks to transport their troops, dead, wounded or otherwise.
Question is whether Ukraine is keeping civilians as hostages in these buildings.
US arms shipment to Ukraine makes little difference.
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Russia retaliates
Over 600 Ukrainians dead?
Russia doesn’t exaggerate, so it is likely
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The Russian artillery demiltarised the reinforcements of the Ukrainian troops with a massive artillery arrival.
This is an update as of January 10th 2023
Soledar direction situation as of 13.00 on January 10, 2023 situation extremely critical around Soledar
At the Soledar site, the assault detachments of the Wagner PMCs are fighting in the central part of Soledar, rapidly advancing to the western outskirts of the 7th mineAt the Toretsky site, units of the NM DNR forces established control over the stronghold of the unit of the 5th separate assault regiment, destroying three members of the Ukrainian formations and capturing two more.
150 artillery ammunition has been delivered to the advanced positions of the 5th OSP of the AFU. At the same time, problems in the functioning of equipment began in the unit due to a decrease in air temperature.
The Ukrainian command is transferring reserves to hold a strategically important area, the loss of which will endanger the positions of the AFU in the Hours of Yar.
In Kleshcheyevka, the servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation broke through the defense of the AFU and are fighting in the central areas of the village.
In the south of Bakhmut, the assault on Opytne continues, where the Wagnerians have advanced to the northern outskirts of the suburb. At the moment, the adjacent neighborhoods are being cleaned up of the State Border Service of Ukraine to restrain the advance of assault detachments of Russian troops AFU command attracted not only the SSR and the NSU, but also the 3rd Lugansk Border guard from the Eastern Regional Administration and the 24th Mogilev-Podolsk border detachment from the Vinnytsia region Information is already being distributed in the AFU units about the beginning of the withdrawal of part of the forces to Chasiv Yar and Konstantinovka under the cover of the remaining units.
In Bakhmut, Ukrainian formations are trying to defend the eastern and southeastern outskirts of the city.
The units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation actually surrounded the Soledar garrison from the west, south and north, depriving them of the possibility of supply. Tonight, the AFU partially withdrew troops from the settlement.
During the storming of the Paraskovievka — Blagodatnoye line, Russian fighters established control over one platoon, three company strongpoints and ten firing positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Along with this, the offensive of Russian troops is developing in the north-west from Soledar in the direction of the railway station “Silj”, as well as from Krasnaya Gora and Bakhmutsky to Blagodatnoye.
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The western part of Soledar and the last road on which it is still possible to leave the city.
A logical explanation why there has been intense fighting in Soledar and Bakhmut. Great read and it explains quite a bit as to why the salt mines are so important.
“Bakhmut is the central point of the Eastern Front and a serious logistics center. And our task there is to die as little as possible, and to destroy the enemy as much as possible.
Bakhmut’s feature is in its unique historical and geographical defense capabilities, which include, first, the division of the city into several parts by water barriers. Secondly, the neighborhood of Bakhmut is a complex of settlements that create a unified defense system. Thirdly, this is a unique landscape, ravines and heights, which are natural tunnels. And the icing on the cake is the system of Soledar and Bakhmut mines, actually a network of underground cities. In which there is not only a cluster of people at a depth of 80-100 meters, but also tanks and infantry fighting vehicles move. And stockpiles of weapons have been stored since the First World War “(c) Prigozhin (Wagner Group)
The ground in Ukraine is frozen. We know what that means.
Who’s making the US policies?
This video is a few days old. But Larry Johnson looks at the cultural and religious aspects of the conflict.
I think the salt mines is key in taking away stored weapons and hiding a network that is 125 miles long!
What is Ukraine hiding in the mines?
Sex slaves, maybe.
Ask Hunter Biden.
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Probably that too! Lol! Who knows, but def weapons!
The Kiev regime doesn’t represent the Ukrainian people. Surprised?
The government in Warsaw doesn’t represent the Polish people either.
Separate truth from propaganda.
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Some analysts may get it right but where they go wrong is which horse to back!