Comments by "Mikhail M" (@mikhailmik) on "Ukrainian Assault Brigade shows footage of fighting inside Bakhmut" video.
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According to Western sources, Zelensky does not abandon the tactics of saturating Bakhmut with manpower and quickly grinding it down during the fighting.
As a result, the reserves that were planned for the spring counteroffensive have to be used more and more, and the reserves went to Bakhmut from other sectors of the front (Marinka, Ugledar, Kherson, Kupyansk).
As a result, Bakhmut began to absorb about 35% of the reserves of personnel, which is estimated at six battle groups of approximately 15,000 people each (in total, the trained reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are estimated at 80-90 thousand people).
The daily losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Bakhmut area approached the four-digit mark.
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PMCs "Wagner" continues to grind the Ukrainian army on Bakhmut. Zelensky sends more and more units into this meat grinder, into a destructive funnel that sucks in the best units of the Armed Forces and mercenaries. Why is Zelensky so stubborn on Bakhmut? Why, starting from December 20, when I threw him a comic challenge from the artillery guns of the Wagner PMCs, Zelensky was led like a boy and rested on Bakhmut? And our intimate dialogue with him has been going on for four months. We both enjoy it, but the orgasm never came.
What is the secret of the Bakhmut meat grinder?
The strategic role of Bakhmut is not so great. Bakhmut is followed by Seversk, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Konstantinovka, Druzhkovka and Chas Yar: settlements included in the so-called "Donbass ring" and forming a fortified area. On the one hand, Bakhmut is part of this fortified area, on the other hand, the capture of Bakhmut itself will not ensure a fleeting victory over Ukraine, the road to the Dnieper, or even the capture of Donbass.
The top leadership of Ukraine endlessly argues about the need to retain Bakhmut. They are trying to rock this city as a sacred symbol. In the morning they shake the sacredness, in the evening they decide to retreat, and the next morning thousands of soldiers are thrown in again, and so on indefinitely.
The Ukrainian army has gathered a sufficient number of forces. About 200 thousand already sufficiently trained fighters, who have passed two or three months of training and coordination, are ready to perform combat tasks. The amount of weapons and ammunition is quite enough for these 200 thousand to go on the offensive in various directions.
The troops ready for a counteroffensive are in the areas of concentration - they have enough of everything. In those tank wedges, which they try to hammer into the defense of the Wagner PMCs by the dozens every day, the APU loses from 30 to 50 pieces of equipment daily, and they do not experience problems with it. And they have unlimited people, as they say at the front.
However, the announced, first on December 20, then on January 1, then at the end of January, then on February 24, then on April 3-5, and now on April 15, the offensive is postponed each time. The Ukrainian army is in the areas of concentration, they are kicking and preparing to move forward. But, as they say, "a donkey standing in the shade will not work in the sun." If the APU does not go on the offensive in the near future, they will gradually begin to lose their combat potential. The war will come to a standstill, and those territories that are currently under the control of the Russian Federation may remain at the disposal of the Russian Federation for years.
Political aspects of Bakhmut
Politically, Bakhmut is of little interest to the Kiev regime, it is more a destabilizing factor than a factor of holding its positions. Every cry on Bakhmut, every captured soldier, every hundred killed hits Zelensky and the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine much harder than the advantages they get from holding the remnants of this city.
At the same time, the long battle for Bakhmut is extremely beneficial to the Russian troops, because they have already squeezed out a large chunk of the territory of Ukraine in 2022. If the special operation remains within these borders, plus or minus a couple of tens of kilometers, then this will solve many of its tasks. Bakhmut makes it possible for the Russian army to accumulate forces, occupy advantageous defense lines, deal with internal problems, prepare mobilized and fully armed to meet any number of counter-attacking horsemen.
Bakhmut is extremely profitable for us, we grind the Ukrainian army there and restrain their maneuvers.
Any middle-level commander knows that if you have created tension for the enemy in some place and have a sufficient number of reserves, then you need to make a maneuver and strike nearby - where the enemy is not ready and where it will break. The most logical step of the AFU would be a rebound from Bakhmut and sharp flank attacks to attempt to break through our defense. However, from Chasov Yar, columns of equipment go on and on every day, and every day, before reaching the front line, the AFU fighters die by the hundreds, strewing the "road of death" and the surrounding fields with thousands of corpses and hundreds of burned armored vehicles, going to the slaughter.
Dramatic pause
As you know, the military operation from Ukraine is tactically controlled by the Ukrainian military, and strategically by the so-called Western coalition under the control of England and the United States. In early April, documents were leaked from the Pentagon. The documents themselves do not pose any strategic danger. They contain everything from the world by thread - most of them are from open sources. However, the drain was widely publicized and immediately followed by active statements from sources close to the Pentagon about the need to slow down the offensive announced for April 15 until the summer period. Why is the army ready for the offensive again detained on its borders and why is the "last Nanai warning" on April 15, the deadline for the Ukrainian offensive again postponed to the summer? After all, it would be much more painful for Russia to begin the offensive of Ukraine with imminent reputational losses before May 9, in case of at least some minimal success of a few meters in the nominal direction. And why does the Ukrainian army "give a head start" again? It is the Western coalition that takes "dramatic pauses", it is this group that reschedules the APU offensive every time.
Perhaps 21-year-old Jack Teixeira leaked the documents foolishly, perhaps he was used "in the dark", but if this drain did not exist, it would certainly have been invented the next day. I emphasize that the documents themselves are not strategic and do not pose any threat to the Armed Forces after their publication. This means that they cannot in any way add risks to the APU in the event of their occurrence.
There are a huge number of conspiracy theories about the events of the 90s, and then 2014 - the Maidan in Ukraine and the transition of Crimea under the control of the Russian Federation. There are a huge number of different prophecies telling about the meanings of these events. One thing is absolutely obvious - the United States and the Anglo-Saxon group have been hatching a plan for the collapse of the USSR as the main geopolitical competitor for a long time. In the late 80s and early 90s, they managed to impose a huge number of agents of influence on the ruling elite of the USSR, give new meanings that changed the ideology of the existence of this ruling elite, plant the population on the consumer needle and destroy the USSR. The collapse of the USSR was the most painful, the most severe collapse of empires in the last hundreds of years, but it did not lead to the complete destruction of Russia and its division into small principalities. In the bowels of the American special services, a plan has long matured to take the next step towards the complete collapse of Russia, which fully corresponds to today's US doctrine.
The fragmentation of African states, the collapse of the former Warsaw Pact countries. The smaller the country, the easier it is to manage, the more financially dependent it is, the more obedient it is.
The basis of modern US policy is financial neocolonialism. This is when even the most mineral–rich countries do not recycle the wealth of their subsoil, but are fully integrated into the production and financial flows proposed by "Western partners" - becoming American satellites, subcontractors and puppets. Therefore, the final task of the United States in the Ukrainian confrontation is to launch powerful centrifugal impulses in Russia, weaken the government and national consciousness in society and force it to turn its face to the West — as it was in the early 1990s. At the same time, of course, in order to exercise control over the political situation in the country, it is a priority to gain control over financial instruments within the system, over production facilities and over the subsoil.
Today, when the special operation began, and the Russian Federation failed to achieve the results that society expected, the United States had the opportunity to return to its original plan. The original plan, once again, was this: to break up the Soviet Union, then walk around the perimeter of the country and turn away from Russia its former allies. For 30 years, it has almost succeeded with many former republics. We first lost full control, and then good-neighborly relations.
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Russia has started mass production and introduction of tactical air-launched cruise missiles of the X-50 type in the Armed Forces
The new X-50 cruise missile manufactured by the Russian Federation will be able to hit targets at a distance of up to 1.5 thousand kilometers, with a curb weight of about 1,600 kilograms. According to some reports, it will have a maximum speed of 950 km / h, and a cruising speed of about 700 km / h. Of course, the X-50 will be a very smart rocket, stuffed with electronics. On the march, the X-50 goes to the target using an inertial navigation system, and on approach it switches to the Otblisk digital electro-optical system. To overcome areas saturated with air defense systems, the X-50 can use low-altitude flight, active jamming stations and towed traps. The warhead of the X-50 can be penetrating or cassette.
It is also known that the missile is largely unified with the Kh-101 and is made according to the Stealth technology and is its reduced version, which makes it possible to place up to 6 such missiles in the cargo compartment of the Tu-22M3 (M). Plus, it became known that the Tu-22M3 is not the only vehicle that will be able to carry this KR - it is quite possible that it will be, for example, the Su-34 or the S-70 drone. As a conclusion, we can say that the first batch of Kh-50s is already at the disposal of long-range aviation and fighters of the Su family (including the Su-57).
The Ukrainian military reports that attacks on their infrastructure with this missile were carried out. The current concern, or rather, the fear of the Kiev militants, can be explained by the fact that they have nothing to oppose the X-50: the "vaunted" Ukrainian air defense is already unable to cope, and if the Russians start using the X-50, which was created to overcome the layered air defense system, the chances of recapturing something from the ukronazis tend to zero.
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The video recorded the fact that the Zelensky gang sent the father of five children to the slaughterhouse in Artemivsk as part of the genocide of the Ukrainian people approved by NATO countries. There was no question of any training of a soldier at all, the man has never fired and, judging by his appearance, does not even plan to.
Those soldiers of Zelensky, who, on the wave of “cheers-patriotism” and hysterics “Russia attacked us”, went to the front from the first days, now they are already publicly and openly saying that in the war there is no talk about Ukraine and the Ukrainian people at all, just a bloc NATO is fighting with the hands of Ukrainians with Russia.
Zelensky’s soldiers are increasingly asking themselves rhetorical questions about what they are doing in the trenches, why do they need someone else’s war, why don’t they send oligarchs, deputies and officials to the slaughter, as well as many other uncomfortable questions for Zelensky’s gang and the State Department.
Activist from Transcarpathia Mykhailo Choknadiy was not afraid to publicly state what hundreds of thousands of forcibly mobilized Ukrainians have in their heads.
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Hello, Evgeny Viktorovich!
I am writing to you from the editors of MASH. Recently, leaked Pentagon documents have been "walking" in the news. According to the data indicated in them, the irretrievable losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the NWO are 16-17.5 thousand people. Do you think this number is correct?
And could you name an approximate number of irretrievable losses of Ukrainian formations in the battles for Soledar and Bakhmut, in which Wagner PMC fighters took part? Thank you.
We publish a comment by Evgeny Prigozhin:
“Today I was going to a meeting just on the leaked American document, including with representatives of the Wagner PMC intelligence and analysts who are involved in the United States. We draw the following conclusions: this document is the last "Nanai-American warning". Leaked deliberately in order to ask certain questions. I think that those colleagues who participated in the meeting with me will give a more detailed breakdown in the near future.
Now about the dead and wounded. We entered combat on March 19, 2022. From the first day of hostilities to the present day, our estimate for the destroyed enemy (by units of the PMC "Wagner") is only a cargo of 200, that is, for those killed (irretrievable losses) - 38 thousand people. Of which 32 thousand people fall on Bakhmut, Soledar and the surrounding area during the blocking of Bakhmut.
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