(February 15, 2023 at 2:17 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Probably also slaves to the whims of their american overlords. Meanwhile, weeks after the start of breathless claims that russia would take bakhmut any minute now, trapping thousands of ukranian soldiers..it holds, and the russian lines have been pushed back and away from the supply lines continuing to make it a meatgrinder for russian troops.
They recently lost about 25 AFVs in an armored push near Bakhmut. They don't seem to have learnt the lesson of screening armor with infantry, which may have broader implications regarding how useful any reinforcements from the conscription may prove.
Meanwhile, Prigozhin is projecting it'll be April before Bakhmut is taken. Six weeks at 1000 KIA/day is well north of 40,000 body bags.