In Britse kwaliteitskrant 'The Guardian' 2 artikelen vandaag.
Verslag van de 'meatgrinder' Bakhmut, waar Russisch huurlingenleger Wagner groepen gevangenis-vrijwilligers en mobiks blijft sturen.
“They just send one group after another against our positions,” Sasha, a member of Ukraine’s 24th mechanised brigade fighting in the area, told the Observer.
“If the attack doesn’t succeed they’ll just try again in exactly the same way. The only strategy I can see at this point is that they want to take the city so they can claim some kind of victory after a year that has seen so many losses.
“We’ve noticed in the past two weeks an increase in shelling and infantry attacks as if they are in a rush to take Bakhmut. That also means that they are suffering ever greater losses. They are just throwing in meat.”
Volgens Wagner baas Prigozhin gaat alles uiteraard naar wens.
“Our task is not Bakhmut itself, but the destruction of the Ukrainian army and the reduction of its combat potential, which has an extremely positive effect on other areas, which is why this operation was dubbed the ‘Bakhmut meat grinder’.”
Oftewel, zolang je niet gehinderd wordt door feiten en realiteit, gaat het fantastisch.
https://www.theguardian.c...mut-meat-grinder-deadlock
Vanuit Wagner laat de groep/militie 'Rusich' (de neo-nazi militie binnen Wagner) van zich horen, met betrekking tot Estland, Letland en Litouwen.
Er is opgeroepen om informatie te delen over grensbewaking, data over manschappen, familie-namen, kenteken nrs, info over patrouilles en techniek .
The official Telegram channel for “Task Force Rusich” – currently fighting in Ukraine on behalf of the Kremlin and linked to the notorious Wagner Group – last week requested members to forward details relating to border posts and military movements in the three Baltic states, which were formerly part of the Soviet Union.
The news has prompted questions over who has overall command over the far-right pro-Kremlin groups fighting in Ukraine.
Aangezien de meeste info al bekend is bij de reguliere geheime diensten, wordt aangenomen dat dit eerder duidt op ontevredenheid binnen Wagner over bovenstaande meatgrinder, dan werkelijke plannen richting de Baltische staten.
Rusich is closely aligned to the Wagner Group, a military outfit run by a close ally of Vladimir Putin and now leading the Russian offensive to capture the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, currently the most fiercely contested battle of the conflict.
Sources speaking on condition of anonymity said the “extraordinary” move by Rusich could point to disenchantment with the Kremlin and frustration with how Putin’s war in Ukraine is going.
De neonazi's van Rusich benoemen zichzelf als "recon en sabotage eenheid" maar zijn vooral berucht vanwege wreedheid.
Rusich promotes itself as a sabotage and reconnaissance force, though its frequent crowdfunding efforts suggest it is not effectively supported by Russian logistical operations.
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Rusich’s fighters, notorious for their brutality in Syria and the 2014 war in Crimea, have been spotted via open-source intelligence in Ukraine’s Donbas and Kharkiv regions, and in Kherson.
https://www.theguardian.c...nce-on-nato-member-states