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Escalation is the message. Reporting in the RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service, Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Russian Wagner mercenary group has indicated that is Russian forces are encountering massive resistance from the Ukrainian forces in the country side of Bakhmut. This is coming in what looks as the confirmation of the claim of Kyiv that its military had on February 10 recorded Russian military losses in Ukraine to the tune of 1000 in the last couple of days.
The situation at hand came as a huge surprise to the Russian forces as “Prigozhin said in the interview with a Russian military correspondent that Russian forces need to capture Bakhmut, which has been in the site of intense fighting for weeks now. Wagner began recruiting prisoners in Russia’s sprawling penal system last summer, with Prigozhin, a catering entrepreneur who served nine years in prison during the Soviet Union, offering convicts a pardon if they survived six months in Ukraine. And no doubt, “Kyiv has been expecting a new Russian military offensive, convinced that after months of setbacks Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to highlight battlefield success before the anniversary of his unprovoked invasion on February 24.”
However, On February 9, Wagner said “it had stopped recruiting prisoners to fight in Ukraine.”
And in the “in its daily update on February 10, Britain’s Defense Intelligence said Wagner forces appear to have advanced 2 to 3 kilometers around the north of Bakhmut since February 7. It also said Russian forces had made some advances near Vuhledar, some 150 kilometers southeast of the fighting in and around Bakhmut, but that Russia’s small gains had likely come at a high cost, including at least 30 armored vehicles abandoned in one failed assault.”
As a follow up and reporting “in its daily update on February 11, the General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces claimed that more than 1,100 Russian soldiers had been killed in the past 24 hours. It also said nine tanks and three armored vehicles had been destroyed on the battlefield.”
It is clear that Russia is not winning the war.
