Wagner chief says Ukraine's Bakhmut 'practically surrounded' | AFP

In a video posted on Telegram, the chief of the Russian paramilitary group 'Wagner' says his fighters have "practically surrounded" Bakhmut, an eastern Ukrainian city that Moscow's forces have been trying to seize for months. "If earlier we were fighting against the professional army" says Yevgeny Prigozhin, "we are now increasingly seeing old people and children."

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[AM-iudr]

Why not show the whole video ??? You only skipped like 15seconds of him showing the eldery and child soldiers of ukraine

[prodigiii]

Why did you cut off the video where he shows the captured elderly man and teenager?

[brooklyn]

why was the video cut? Or is it not profitable to upload the full video?

[goldenfiremonkey]

Bakhmut is the last city for the 2nd defence line of Ukraine right?

[changtcg]

Can we get the whole video where they pan to some old guy and 2 young soldiers.

[am-pm]

sound like he just chugged a whole bottle of vodka, 🤣🤣

[drkam]

No offense to anyone, but the guy looks like the russian Patton. Look at Patton's photo for comparison.

[mrknowitall]

The rest of the video shows 2 boys and and old man.

[shloomyshloms]

Captain Himars! target this position 48.657857°, 37.998297° and fire!

[aliwalil]

Not true. Russia ran out of weapons last year.

[warden]

Wrong translation. Prigozhin says that Kiev sends more and more children and old men to Bakhmut slaughter. He says let those kids live. And the video is not full either. There is a very young man and an old man in the end and the old man begs Zelensky to let other Ukranians live by pulling them out.

[josesalinassegura]

Congratulations Russia ❤❤. Very special and human message from Wagner to avoid young and old ucranuan soldiers' death. Thanks Russia!!!❤❤

[pnjgnwb]

Wagner vs NATO. The miserable Ukrainian army with all the NATO weapons lost this battle to Russian prisoners. Nato is a paper tiger

[joshuapaul]

Yeah, Ukraine is winning on Real life is a completely different matter. Ukraine already lost most trained and motivated soldiers along with almost all hardware it had before the war plus hundreds of tanks and IFVs it got from Eastern Europe (to understand the scale of losses it had 1 990 tanks, 1 212 IFVs, 1 112 heavy artillery systems, 354 multiple rocket launchers). Its army is a shadow of its former self at the beginning of the war. Zelenskyy is catching and forced conscripting often at gunpoint mostly people with zero motivation to die for him, who never served in the army, often disabled. When such people are in the trenches, it means that the front can collapse at any moment. According to WaPo of all places Russians have 1:6 advantage in artillery (you can imagine their real advantage). 85% of Ukrainian soldiers are killed even without seeing an enemy. Biden administration is getting quite desperate. The only option left for Biden administration is to throw Polish army into a meat grinder. I just hope that Polish government isn't that crazy.

[Moekoffee]

Russia’s Gollum may soon have his ring

[powr]

God bless Russia# More power to Russia