Ukraine Bakhmut

1. 2023-03-06 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64859780
   1. "Ukraine war: Russia's Wagner boss suggests 'betrayal' in Bakhmut battle"
   2. "The head of Russia's Wagner private army says it is not getting the ammunition it needs from Moscow, as it seeks to gain control of Bakhmut."
2. 2023-03-07 https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/16/europe/bakhmut-wagner-yevgeny-prigozhin-intl-cmd/index.html
   1. "Battle for Bakhmut grinds down Wagner’s mercenaries and cuts their notorious leader down to size"
3. 2023-03-17 https://www.politico.eu/article/zelenskyy-digs-in-against-calls-to-quit-bakhmut-us-western-allies-eu-russia-frontlines-valeriy-zaluzhnyy-kyiv-soledar-kupol/
   1. "Zelenskyy digs in against calls to quit Bakhmut"
   2. "Holding Bakhmut made sense while Russia was suffering far higher casualties, but the logic of slogging it out is now in question."
4. 2023-03-18 https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-18-2023
   1. "Wagner financier Yevgeny Prigohzin is likely attempting to set informational conditions to explain the Wagner Group’s culmination around Bakhmut."
5. 2023-03-19
   1. "Prigozhin creates pretexts to justify Wagner Group's inability to encircle Bakhmut"
   2. "ISW previously assessed that Wagner fighters are likely conducting opportunistic attacks on easier-to-seize settlements further north and northwest of Bakhmut as their ability to make tactical gains in Bakhmut itself diminishes, and Prigozhin likely seeks to frame these activities as securing flanks in preparation for Ukrainian counteroffensives."
   3. "The milblogger likely tried to rationalize the Wagner Group’s failure to envelop Bakhmut by setting the necessary conditions for the envelopment further away and farther out of the Wagner Group’s current operational capabilities. Prigozhin also claimed that Ukrainian forces have at least 19,000 personnel deployed within Bakhmut, likely an attempt to justify Wagner’s lack of progress within the city."
6. 2023-03-22 https://rutube.ru/video/fccb77463a0de56569dce25c989524a9/
   1. South
      1. 7:34 UA says battle in Predtechine (east of Kostantinovka) https://www.google.com/maps/place/Predtechyne,+Donetsk+Oblast,+Ukraine,+85161/@48.5795236,37.919388,28699m
      2. 8:18 Wagner says from a forest west of Ivanivske they control way T 0504 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Predtechyne,+Donetsk+Oblast,+Ukraine,+85161/@48.5691128,37.8892971,11641m
      3. 8:50 Wagner attacks Ivanivske
   2. North
      1. 9:02 Wagner attacks Khromovo / Артёмовское
   3. analysis
      1. 9:15 Sanya assumes that when Prigozhin stated publicly that Wagner is lacking forces, he did that to prevent a withdrawal, and that Zelenskij before that almost ordered the withdrawal, but after the statement didn't order withdrawal, and that now attacks occur and the encirclement gets stronger.
      2. 11:00 in Bakhmut are some 10s of 1000 of soldiers
7. 2023-03-23 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-23/putin-s-mercenary-prigozhin-shifts-focus-after-ukraine-setbacks
   1. Putin’s Mercenary Prigozhin Shifts Focus After Ukraine Setbacks
   2. Wagner founder seen shifting attention to Africa operations
   3. https://www.n-tv.de/politik/16-50-Bericht-Prigoschin-soll-Reduzierung-der-Operation-in-Bachmut-in-Betracht-ziehen--article23143824.html
8. 2023-03-23 https://rutube.ru/video/8817d9f4a55ffdcd97f55c9ef8bee01b/
   1. Zelenskij only shown in hangar and hasn't been in Bakhmut