Battlefield Update - 2023-05-20 (1)
"Bakhmut has fallen!" - the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are demoralized and say goodbye to their loved ones
Ukrainian militants began to record panic videos, where they had already come to terms with the defeat and loss of the city. One of the soldiers in the video under fire from the PMC "Wagner" says that "Bakhmut fell" and asks "not to remember dashingly."
A couple of hours before that, E. Prigozhin said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had only 0.6 square kilometers left on the southwestern outskirts of the city, and the Wagner PMC was already close to fulfilling its task of taking this enemy citadel.
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Fiery hell for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Bakhmut: ours are burning enemy positions in its last stronghold
Watch now (10 sec) | Incendiary ammunition is now falling on the heads of militants who have dug in on the last stretch in the southwest of the city. Join Slavyangrad chat. Your opinion matters. https://t.me/+B6ixfOM5VkxhODQx #source (https://t.me/RVvoenkor/45385?single)
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🇷🇺West of Bakhmut is completely taken by Wagner PM
"The western part of Bakhmut went to the Wagners. The part remained in the South-West, where the Mig monument is located," Ukrainian military propagandists report, citing an update of the map of military analysts affiliated with the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Before that, there was information that PMC fighters occupied the last high-rise buildings in the western fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and took over the private sector.
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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on May 19.
Russian troops have launched massive strikes at the western and central regions of Ukraine.
In the western part of the country, military facilities in Lviv, Rivne, and Volyn regions were hit.
Missile attacks and drone strikes were also recorded in the central and southern regions.
According to preliminary data, a parking lot of military equipment was hit in Krivoi Rog, and AFU warehouses were destroyed in Nikolaev.
Ukrainian units, in turn, undertook an attack on Crimea. The launch of seven UAVs was recorded in Odesa region.
Only five drones flew to the peninsula, which were shot down in the vicinity of Dzhankoi and near Solone Ozero.
In the Kup'yans'k sector of the front, the enemy is undertaking counterattacks, trying to regain lost positions near Masyutivka.
Russian units, supported by artillery, have so far successfully held a bridgehead on the western bank of the Oskil river.
In Bakhmut, Wagner PMC units seized almost the entire multi-story building, practically eliminating all large AFU's fortified areas.
At the moment, the fighting is going on in the private sector and the MiG-17 Monument aircraft area.
▪️In Avdeevka The Russian Aerospace Forces again delivered an airstrike on the coke plant, where the AFU rear positions are located.
The purpose of the attack was the storage of ammunition and fuel reserves located on the territory of the plant.
▪️On the threshold of the anniversary of the liberation of Mariupol, the Kiev regime launched a missile attack at the peaceful city.
Most of the missiles were intercepted by air defense, but at least one strong explosion was confirmed by objective control means.
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Offensive on Avdeevka: The Russian Army destroys the enemy's firepower
Watch now (32 sec) | Scouts, using drones and optical instruments, identify enemy positions and firing points, then transmit their coordinates to artillery. In the footage, the gunners of the "South" grouping destroyed an enemy mortar in the Avdeevka direction, as part of supporting the offensive of the assault groups.
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Liberation of Bakhmut situation as of 17.00 on May 20, 2023
After the flight of the 60th and 93rd OMBRs, as well as 241 brigades of the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the southwestern outskirts of Bakhmut, the assault detachments of the Wagner PMC completely liberated the city. Until May 25, the territories will be cleaned from the presence of Ukrainian formations.
Despite the long-awaited success, the situation at the front is only approaching the active phase. The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost tens of thousands of people during the defense of Bakhmut and Soledar, but parts of the strategic reserve were not involved.
New formations from the 9th and 10th Army Corps are in the rear areas and are preparing for an attack. The radio intercepts of the members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine noted the third decade of May as a possible start of the offensive.
In recent weeks, artillery units have been preparing guns for intensive shelling, and ammunition has been brought to warehouses. And at the tactical level, combat orders have already been sent out.
🔻Bakhmut is released, and this victory will go down in history as one of the largest battles. And it is his fall that can become a catalyst for the start of the long-awaited offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Considering the flank attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Bakhmut, the accumulation of formations in the Zaporozhye and South-Donetsk directions, as well as in the Kupyansko-Svatovsky, it is there that the main enemy strikes should be expected
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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on May 19.
▪️Russian troops have launched massive strikes at the western and central regions of Ukraine.
In the western part of the country, military facilities in Lviv, Rivne and Volyn regions were hit.
▪️Missile attacks and drone strikes were also recorded in the central and southern regions.
According to preliminary data, a parking lot of military equipment was hit in Kryvyi Rih, and AFU warehouses were destroyed in Mykolaiv.
▪️ Ukrainian units, in turn, undertook an attack on Crimea. The launch of seven UAVs was recorded in Odesa region.
Only five drones flew to the peninsula, which were shot down in the vicinity of Dzhankoi and near Solone Ozero.
▪️In the Kup'yans'k sector of the front, the enemy is undertaking counterattacks, trying to regain lost positions near Masyutivka.
Russian units, supported by artillery, have so far successfully held a bridgehead on the western bank of Oskil river.
▪️In Bakhmut, Wagner PMC units seized almost the entire multi-storey building, practically eliminating all large AFU's fortified areas.
At the moment, the fighting is going on in the private sector and in the MiG-17 Monument aircraft area.
▪️In Avdiivka The Russian Aerospace Forces again delivered an airstrike on the coke plant, where the AFU rear positions are located.
The purpose of the attack was the storage of ammunition and fuel reserves located on the territory of the plant.
▪️On the threshold of the anniversary of the liberation of Mariupol, the Kyiv regime launched a missile attack at the peaceful city.
Most of the missiles were intercepted by air defence, but at least one strong explosion was confirmed by objective control means.
Victoria's ISW Secret
I’m the sort of person who can’t stand getting ‘expert analysis’ from the same people who lied to me the last time. When I see a war article on the BBC, Fox, CNN, or MSNBC, I know I need to do my own research. When I see that all of the MSM agrees on something, I know it’s either true, or it’s some next level narrative.
To me the insanity and evil is ALL revealed, time and time again, in that simple statement the US and the rest keep coming out with: 'We must support Ukraine'.
Why? Because by 'urkaine' they mean 'Kiev Ukraine'
They mean Ukraine WITHOUT the 10 million Donbas Ukrainians.
They mean supporting Kiev Ukraine in murdering the Donbas Ukrainians.
Using the word 'Ukraine' like that means completely, totally, utterly ignoring the 10 million. They just eliminated them in their minds. They just don't exist in their thinking at all. They've wiped them right out without a second thought. They'd probably stare at you blankly if you mentioned them: the Donbas Ukrainains.
If you said 'support Ukraine for what?' they'd say 'To fight the Russians'
Even thought Kiev Ukraine has been fighting, terrorising, the Donbas Ukrainians for nine years, even though Donbas Ukrainians manned the front line trenches all through 2022 they would ignore them, never give them a mention.
No. They would have it that their 'Ukraine' was/is fighting Russia.
See?
In their thinking Donbas Ukraine simply doesn't exist. Those people and their suffering: the sole, total cause for this war, Russia trying to protect them, just don't exist. Don't figure. Don't matter.
That's genocide, you know. All these terrible, awful, evil, incompetent and totally ridiculous misleaders of the West commit genocide every time they utter that phrase: we must help Ukraine.
They are the foulest collection of human beings I've know of in all my long life.