The Ukrainians acknowledged: the Russians succeeded
Ukraine has acknowledged that Russian forces have made some progress in Bakhmut, a politically symbolic city, the scene of a fierce battle for months.
Source: index.hr
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Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday morning that the loss of Bakhmut could undermine Ukraine's momentum, forcing them to compromise with Vladimir Putin.
Since then, the General Staff of its armed forces announced that the Russian offensive had "a certain degree of success".
"The enemy forces had a certain degree of success in their actions aimed at attacking the city of Bakhmut," the General Staff said in a regular nightly report.
"Our defenders are holding the city and repelling numerous enemy attacks," they added.
I suppose that is right but when you have casualties in the order of 200 a day on the Ukrainian side its little wonder. I'm sure the western MSM will turn this into Russian casualties. This is a war of attrition not mobile conquest and all the Russians are doing is keeping one road open so that Ukraine can keep sending their troops into the meat grinder. The Russian strategy is to destroy the Ukraine military and then they can walk into any city, town or village with no resistance. The Russians are in no hurray to take anything as it puts pressure on Ukraine to throw its forces against Russian troops and the loss is something like for every Russian soldier killed 11 Ukrainians die and other battles its as high as 1 to 17. The Russians have already totally annihilated the first army that was trained and armed by NATO from 2015 to 2022. It was the best trained and equipped army in NATO. All Kiev has now is conscripts that are given 2 to 3 weeks training and then thrown into the battle line. Ukraine soldiers have said that the life expectancy of their soldiers in Bakhmut is on average 2 hours. Its the artillery that is killing these troops. Russians on average fire 20,000 rounds per day.
(sj, 30 March 2023 09:43)
I suppose that is right but when you have casualties in the order of 200 a day on the Ukrainian side its little wonder. I'm sure the western MSM will turn this into Russian casualties. This is a war of attrition not mobile conquest and all the Russians are doing is keeping one road open so that Ukraine can keep sending their troops into the meat grinder. The Russian strategy is to destroy the Ukraine military and then they can walk into any city, town or village with no resistance. The Russians are in no hurray to take anything as it puts pressure on Ukraine to throw its forces against Russian troops and the loss is something like for every Russian soldier killed 11 Ukrainians die and other battles its as high as 1 to 17. The Russians have already totally annihilated the first army that was trained and armed by NATO from 2015 to 2022. It was the best trained and equipped army in NATO. All Kiev has now is conscripts that are given 2 to 3 weeks training and then thrown into the battle line. Ukraine soldiers have said that the life expectancy of their soldiers in Bakhmut is on average 2 hours. Its the artillery that is killing these troops. Russians on average fire 20,000 rounds per day.
(sj, 30 March 2023 09:43)
I suppose that is right but when you have casualties in the order of 200 a day on the Ukrainian side its little wonder. I'm sure the western MSM will turn this into Russian casualties. This is a war of attrition not mobile conquest and all the Russians are doing is keeping one road open so that Ukraine can keep sending their troops into the meat grinder. The Russian strategy is to destroy the Ukraine military and then they can walk into any city, town or village with no resistance. The Russians are in no hurray to take anything as it puts pressure on Ukraine to throw its forces against Russian troops and the loss is something like for every Russian soldier killed 11 Ukrainians die and other battles its as high as 1 to 17. The Russians have already totally annihilated the first army that was trained and armed by NATO from 2015 to 2022. It was the best trained and equipped army in NATO. All Kiev has now is conscripts that are given 2 to 3 weeks training and then thrown into the battle line. Ukraine soldiers have said that the life expectancy of their soldiers in Bakhmut is on average 2 hours. Its the artillery that is killing these troops. Russians on average fire 20,000 rounds per day.
(sj, 30 March 2023 09:43)