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Bakhmut. Brief results of the losses on the part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
2023-05-22
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Remark by Dmitry Yudin taken from remarks on the V Kontakte page of Military Informant.
Bakhmut. Brief results of the losses on the part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

A lot has been said about the volume of Ukrainian forces that were ground by the “Bahmut meat grinder”. Now - to dry numbers

- 21 brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated;

- 10 brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have completely lost their combat capability;

- 57,000 AFU servicemen killed and more than 85,000 wounded;

- more than 10,000 pieces of equipment and weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed;

- more than 50 aircraft and helicopters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were shot down in the sky over Bakhmut;

- more than 6,500 thousand foreign mercenaries destroyed;

— more than 35,000 units. weapons were captured by PMC Wagner during the battles for Soledar and Bakhmut.

Posted by:badanov

#8  The battle has moved to the flanks where the Ukrainians are making low effort attacks to surround Bakhmut, but mostly to draw in more Russian reserves. The Ukrainians have moved another km in the last 2 days on the southern flank. Also saw video where they have captured heights looking into the city.

The Ukrainians also control a small SW section of the city (the utility district?) where they are sending out patrols and makes a good jumping off point if the Ukrainians did decide to attack into the city. No Russian effort to take it or move to Chasiv Yar.
Posted by: Enver Slager8035   2023-05-22 22:13  

#7  Here you go.
Posted by: Enver Slager8035   2023-05-22 21:39  

#6  I'd like to see that video again where the Ukrainian fascists burned those ethnic Russians alive in that building in Odessa. And who cares that it was in 2014. Sick puppies, those Slava Ukraina types.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-05-22 16:08  

#5  Can we call it Artemovsk now that the battle has concluded?

ELI5: How is it possible? I thought Wagner was done in Bakhmut. That Wagner were pulling out. Poorly trained Conscripts were to replace them. I thought they ran out of ammo, and only had shovels. What about the UKR Counter-Offensive that was so successful that the next the day the city fell.

So are UKR troops so incompetent that Russian conscripts with shovels liberated the city.

American Propaganda and the Traction it gets makes me want to slit my wrists. Deep State would be so lucky.

"Bakhmut... as President Zelensky compares ruins of Ukrainian city to Hiroshima"

Yet Zelensky still sent young UKR men with wives and children to die in the Meat Grinder - despite it being a lost cause. For the optics.

Hope Zelensky eats a drone. Namaste.
Posted by: mossomo   2023-05-22 12:54  

#4  /\ "To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace." --Calcagus, according to Tacitus.

The Chinese oligarchs are shaking their heads at the Russian lack of skill. The CCP wants Taiwan but they want to milk its resources like they did Hong Kong -- not rebuild a smoking rubble pile.
Posted by: magpie   2023-05-22 09:05  

#3  In the absence of nuke usage, chapo, Dresden is the closest you can legitimately claim.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-05-22 08:10  

#2  Horrifying photographs show the scale of Putin's destruction in Bakhmut as President Zelensky compares ruins of Ukrainian city to Hiroshima
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-05-22 05:53  

#1  Ukraine hasn't announced loses but this tally by Russia can't possibly be right:

"...more than 6,500 thousand foreign mercenaries destroyed..."



Posted by: lord garth   2023-05-22 00:52  

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