All language subtitles for 03-06-2023ersert

What is known about the withdrawal of Wagner’s

group from Bakhmut and generally what
is the situation in this direction ?

The Ukrainian defense forces in Bakhmut control a
small area with access to logistics artery 05-04.

This location is completely under the fire control
of the Ukrainian defense forces, so the enemy has

engaged in regrouping in the city itself and
reduced the number of any active operations in

Bakhmut. That there will be a complete withdrawal
of the Wagner PMC from the city, I have doubts,

Prigozhin has already repeatedly promised to
withdraw his units from the Bakhmut bridgehead.

He is really trying, as soon
as possible, to leave the city,

because he understands that
the flanks are falling off.

And they are crumbling because there is not enough
resource to deter Ukrainian counterattacks, which

continue to increase the zone of control by the
Ukrainian defense forces, just outside the city.

As of today, there are approximately 4,000
Wagner PMC personnel in Bakhmut. They are

holding what's left of the city, who are they
going to be replaced by, regular Russian troops?

Well, where will these regular troops
get another 4 thousand to replace the

Wagner grouping, if they can't hold the flanks?

Even more I will say, they do not have enough
resources to hold the border and have to move

the 3rd Motor Rifle Division from the Luhansk
direction. They have a catastrophic shortage

of even human resources today. If they move some
personnel from the flanks or from other locations

to the city, it will end up that the flanks will
either begin to crumble much faster, or there will

be a leveling of the defensive capabilities
in some other beachhead, some other location.

Therefore, Prigozhin, only partially, in my
opinion, will deal with the withdrawal of

his Wagnerians, but the vast majority will remain
exactly in Bakhmut. For him, the main thing today

is what? To leave the city as soon as possible,
to demonstrate pathos that he is the winner.

After a while the Russians will be forced
to flee Bakhmut. And when they flee, he will

start a new wave of discrediting and information
attacks against Generals Shoigu and Gerasimov.

But then he will already be on Russian territory,
he will be in Russia as the victor who captured

Bakhmut, allegedly Bakhmut is some kind of a
Kyiv. And in this way this ascent to the political

Olympus will continue for him, because now
there is a struggle for his political prospects.

Though I still do not completely understand why
he needs it. Now his rating is too low, and when

it grows up, they will get rid of Prigozhin,
as they always get rid of real competitors.

There are other thoughts, but
right now it is too early.

Let me summarize the events
in the Bakhmut direction.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces in Bakhmut achieved the
main thing: they exhausted the Russian forces and

leveled that big winter offensive. The enemy was
trapped in Bakhmut and it cost Russia at least

60,000 casualties in the Bakhmut-Popasna
sector during the year-long battle.

Today there are no Ukrainian forces in
Bakhmut itself, but the occupiers still

do not control the entire area. There
are areas where they are successfully

prevented from entrenching themselves, and
Ukrainian artillery is working very hard.

Fighting continues in the area of
Klischiivka. While the settlement

is still not under the control of the AFU,

there the enemy paratroopers are trying to put
up a strong resistance, the fighting is heavy.

The Ukrainians are holding back the enemy and also
counterattacking quite successfully - there is a

small advance. So far without predictions
of further developments in this direction.

There are positive aspects,
there are negative aspects.

This is a war that the world has not
seen for almost 80 years. Time will tell.