re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Hell even Siberia is moving away from Russia. The Wagner group reminds me of the brown shirts in Nazi Germany, they helped put the Nazis in power and then as soon as it was done were wiped out by the military. I have little doubt the Russian military will take out Wagner at first good opportunity.

More maps of the northern section of the eastern front down to Bakhmut. Updated as of 21 hours ago.

https://twitter.com/Pouletvolant3/status/1634122501839101952

And on towards Kherson

British Defence Intelligence
UPDATE ON UKRAINE 11 March 2023
INTELLIGENCE UPDATE

Over the last four days, Wagner Group forces have taken control of most of eastern part of the Donbas town of Bakhmut. In the town centre, the Bakhmutka River now marks the front line.

Ukrainian forces hold the west of the town and have demolished key bridges over the river, which runs through north-south through a strip of open ground 200m-800m wide, between built up areas. With Ukrainian units able to fire from fortified buildings to the west, this area has become a killing zone, likely making it highly challenging for Wagner forces attempting to continue their frontal assault westwards.

However, the Ukrainian force and their supply lines to the west remain vulnerable to the continued Russian attempts to outflank the defenders from the north and south.

People have been claiming Russia would commit “false flag” attacks since day one and none of them have actually happened.

My biggest question is if the Russians are playing possum or they really this bad at trying to takeover a country. I mean tons of credit for the troops and defense by Ukraine, but most would think this would have been over by now if Russia is so mighty.

I watched some of his videos from Bakhmut. The man was obviously drunk. Putin lets him ramble on and say whatever he wants about the Russian military leadership. The leadership has supposedly cut all contact with Prigozhin. He claims that they refuse to see his representatives and have even dropped any method of him communicating with them.

Putin benefits from this internal fight and allows it. Better to have his dogs fighting each other than going after him. Hitler used the same strategy with his inner circle.

If anyone does any background on Prigozhin and his past they will find he is a real thug. Served prison time earlier in his life. He is brutal and has no morality whatsoever. He reminds me of some of Hitler's thugs that he kept around early on in the 1920's. Criminals some of which had committed crimes such as murder. Street thugs. Or maybe Prigozhin has become to Putin what Ernst Rohm became to Hitler.
But he is becoming a sort of folk hero to many in Russia.

Peter Zeihan states that the US knows everything that the Kremlin is doing immediately, but China is so closed we have no clue but guessing. I have no idea if that is even close to factual about Russia due some of Zeihan's ideas are pretty good, others he opines on, he has zero clue and more like Cliff Claven bar room talk.

Last night, I thought the news from Bakhmut was negative, but it looks better this morning.

Start with the kills report, and yesterday was a good day to die if you were a Russian soldier. Also, look at the claimed tank, IFV, and artillery kills:




So this would indicate that the Ukrainian strategy of ensuring that the "Russian offensive" continues is a good one. I know that a lot of those losses were in the Kreminna area, where Russia tried some attacks that completely failed.

Also, in the list of areas that the UA staff reported repelling Russian attacks, they listed the town of Paraskoviyivka, and that's a bit of a shock, because that's a suburban area of Bakhmut which has been under Russian control for a long time. That would imply that Ukraine significantly pushed Russia back in the north of Bakhmut.

If it is indeed true that Ukraine has pushed Russia back to the outskirts of Paraskoviyivka today, then a new map might look something like this (from @HeliosRunner):




So, today might have been a very good day for Ukraine. Or, the UA general staff might have been wrong or lying -- we'll see.