Wagner PVC in Bakhmut risks staying without fighters, depriving the Russian Federation of shock troops - isw

According to analysts, Putin's "Putin's Boil" fears that the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation leads a battle for the frontline city to the last "Wagner". In the battle for Bakhmut, Wagner PEC may lose the best forces by depriving Russia of some of its most effective and most difficult to replace shock troops. This is stated in the daily analytical report of the American Institute of War Study (ISW) for March 6.

"Wagner attacks" once forced the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation to attract part of their elite airborne troops in the battle. It is possible that before taking the city of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will be forced to choose between the refusal of efforts or throwing more high quality troops into the battle.

And to deplete the elite elements of the Wagner group together with other elite units, in the conditions of defense war within the city, will significantly contribute to the benefit of Ukraine, ”the report reads. Wagner PEC is afraid that his forces are spent in this way. On March 5 and 6, Prigogine made a series of statements that indicate that he fears that the Russian Ministry of Defense was a battle for Bakhmut to the last PVC fighter.

Later, Prigogine published a response to a meeting of Zelensky-Galuzhnaya-Syrsky on March 6 and stated that Ukraine formed a number of offensive groups in Donetsk region to "unlock" Bakhmut Wagner's blockade and that it requires ammunition and reinforcement for Wagner. Prigogine argued that if the "Wagnerians" did not receive the necessary ammunition and reinforcement - the Bakhmut blockade of the Armed Forces would break through.

"Serious degradation or destruction of the elite forces of Wagner will have positive consequences outside the battlefield," the Institute analysts say. The plan of the Armed Forces in Bakhmut in Donetsk region - to deplete the Armed Forces. "Wagnets" managed to move to the city center from the east and north, as the Armed Forces retreated west of the Bakhmutka River and were fighting for control of two routes of supply to Bakhmut.