"Negative offensive": the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation deleted the post of the escape of the Bakhmut Armed Forces (photo)
The focus watched the statistics and found out that the ministry was deleted on May 12 at 11:48. The first on the escape of the 72nd brigade of regular units of Russian troops in the area south of Bakhmut was announced on May 9, the head of the Wagner PEC Yevgeny Prigogin. "Information distributed by Telegram-channels about the escape of individual units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from Artemivsk (Bakhmut) is not true. As of 10.
00 on May 12, 2023, absolutely all units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are in the positions entrusted to them,"-wrote in the press center. The ministry then claimed that all information about the invaders' escape was distributed by opponents to panic. "We urge everyone to start only from official information," the Russian Defense Ministry said. On May 9, Yevgeny Prigogin stated that the 72nd brigade fled in full.
Therefore, the front was exposed for almost two kilometers wide and 500 meters deep. "Well, we blocked him abyiat," said the PVC chairman, accusing the Russian command of doing "absolutely everything to make the front falling. " The fighters of the 3rd assault brigade of the Armed Forces on May 9 showed a video of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from several positions near Bakhmut.
The Ukrainian assault was eliminated 64 invaders, 87 more were injured, including Wagnerivtsi. During the assault, the occupiers lost military equipment, ammunition, mortars and several BMPs. The Ukrainian commander with the call sign "Rollo", whose battalion participated in the attack on the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation near Bakhmut on May 8, said that the first flee "Wagnerivtsi" rather than personnel.
Rollo said the Ukrainian military spent two hours to convince the Russians to surrender. "Prigogine wanted to blame the Russian army, but they were good soldiers and fought stubbornly. Prigogine liar," the commander added. The Austrian military analyst Tom Cooper named the reasons for the escape of the Russians. This is due to the lack of rotation in the Russian army and the activity of the Armed Forces in the Bakhmut direction.
The hostile units have not been rotation in the Bakhmut area for the last 5 months and exhausted. Cooper notes that tens of thousands of convicts were sent to the city, but after the losses had to reduce the shelves and brigades to the size of the mouth (200-300 people). We will remind that on May 11 Yevgeny Prigogin invited Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoig to visit Bakhmut. Prigogine stressed that his mercenaries allegedly control 95% of the city.