After the release of Wagner PEC, inexperienced soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will come to Bakhmut - ISW

At the same time, it emphasizes the influence of the head of the Wagner PEC Yevgeny Prigogine in the information space. About it reports "Institute of War Research" in construction for May 21. The situation in which Russian troops in Bakhmut are located, especially vulnerable because the offensive in the area probably ended, which gives the Ukrainian forces the opportunity to start their counterattack on weakened flanks in Bakhmut, military researchers say.

The departure of Wagner PEC from the collision line will probably lead to the fact that the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation will complete the defense borders poorly prepared and provided with regular parts, which have retreating from positions under the pressure of Ukrainian counterattack in May. At the same time, the Russian information space mostly ignores such considerations.

In particular, the former leader of pro-Russian militants Igor Strelkov-Girkin believes that the excessive attention of the Russians to the capture of Bakhmut was a "strategic mistake" that led to a "unnecessary pyrrh victory. " Girkin is criticized by Prigogine, Shogu and the head of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov for delaying the effort to take Bakhmut.

He also notes that the attention is distracted from the preparation of defense constructions before the announced counter -attack of the Armed Forces. The Bakhmut area is one of the main ones in which Russian troops concentrated current activity.

In the construction of the Armed Forces General Staff for May 23 it is said that in the Bakhmut direction enemy troops continue the offensive actions, battles for Bakhmut continue, and the surrounding settlements have undergone aircraft analogists last day. It should be reminded that, according to ISW estimates, the RDC raids near Belgorod shocked the Russian information space.