The American Institute for the Study of War announced an alleged slowdown in the offensive of Wagner PMC assault groups near Bakhmut

The pace of the offensive of Russian troops in the Donbass is allegedly slowing down, the Wagner PMCs are suffering heavy losses, the command of the Russian group is forced to send personnel units into the battle near Bakhmut. This conclusion was made by the American analytical center, better known as ISW (Institute for the Study of War) - Institute for the Study of War.

Analysts of the center, having studied the materials that appeared after January 20, including videos of battles in the area of ​​​​Bakhmut (Artemovsk), established that personnel units of the Russian Airborne Forces appeared in the vicinity of the city, and in Bakhmut itself only assault groups of PMC "Wagner" are still advancing. Based on this, it was concluded that the appearance of the paratroopers speaks of the allegedly large losses of attack aircraft, which are no longer able to take Bakhmut on their own.

Ordinary Russian units are participating in the battles in Bakhmut to intensify the Russian offensive there. Combat footage released Jan. 20 shows Russian Airborne Troops operating around Bakhmut, footage showing BMD-4M - a mechanized vehicle used exclusively by the Airborne Forces

American analysts said.

Based on the assumption of heavy losses, ISW concludes that the pace of the advance of Russian troops is falling, and, accordingly, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have the opportunity to recapture the city, pulling up reserves.

In fact, everything is not as rosy as it seems to the Americans. Indeed, personnel units of the Russian army operate in the Bakhmut area, but at a considerable distance from the city, they hold the flanks and conduct their own offensive in cooperation with the "musicians". In Bakhmut itself, only Wagner attack aircraft work, while, as Yevgeny Prigozhin emphasized, the task of immediately taking the city is not worth it, the main goal is to grind as many personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as possible. With such tactics, talking about slowing down the offensive is showing one's incompetence.

Comments

[Fisherman]

Here, rather, there is a concentration of forces to strengthen the flanks and carry out long-range breakthroughs with the consolidation of positions, and this is no longer work for Wagner attack aircraft. So the information is excellent, everyone draws their own conclusions based on their "Wishlist". And the idea that there are losses in the war is, as it were, not new ....

[Orange Bigg]

It’s just that the city is densely built up, and there the Armed Forces of Ukraine decently dug in.

In recent days, our fighters have knocked out the trains of the 77th OAEMB and the 128th OGSH Brigade from Krasnopolyevka, which is located on the highway leading to Seversk. Moreover, the “musicians” are developing an attack on Razdolovka and Veseloye. At the same time, fighting is going on in the area of ​​Blagodatny, Krasnaya Gora and Stupka railway, which does not allow the Armed Forces to maneuver reserves.

As for Bakhmut/Artemovsk itself, a fierce street battle is going on in the city in the areas of the Meat Processing Plant, Zabakhmutka and Damba. On the army chat of the 60th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, it is said that the “musicians” came close to the village of Ivanovskoye, capturing a number of heights dominating Chasovy Yar.

Recently, the word “Ugledar” has been heard more and more loudly in the news bulletins. In this city, the defense is held by the 72nd brigade of the Black Cossacks, and all attempts to send troops of the 79th ODSHB and 68th OEBr to help it are suppressed by our gunners. Tension at the ukrovermacht with manpower, apparently, is observed everywhere.

https://svpressa.ru/war21/article/360460/

[Incvizitor]

Buildings with vukami need to be leveled to zero and then go in.

[Reptiloid]

Staff members just want to bark louder and write nonsense about Russia. There are no other goals

[rocket757]

The minke whales write purposefully ... support / cheer up the skakuas, at the same time, some of ours, give rise to doubts. Standard methods, as in the textbook.

[Reptiloid]

Quote: rocket757

.... ours, some, give rise to doubts. Standard methods, as in the textbook.

Oh well! Teach us how it is better for us to fight against their puppets. Just remember the words of Lavrov

.... and the word Lavrov for centuries

[ABC-schutze]

It is enough for this overseas "institute of study" to "truncate" the main thing - today, "Musicians" are the ONLY PMC in the WORLD, capable of LONG and SUCCESSFULLY waging a FULL, INTENSE COMBINED ARMS BATTLE, with the enemy's REGULAR army ... Moreover, to beat the enemy in an OFFENSIVE battle...

With the use of ALL means of fire destruction and weapons and military equipment, up to tanks, MLRS and strike aircraft ...

Incl. in difficult conditions of the situation, - a settlement with dense buildings, in an area prepared in advance by the enemy for a long defense ...

Just in case...

ALL US PMCs, from Afghanistan to Iraq, with all their "special professionals", being "on contract" with the Pentagon, were able to perform only auxiliary tasks - escorting rear supply columns, guarding the "top" of local collaborators appointed by the US occupiers in the occupied territories and their "institutions", "training" of "armies" recruited by collaborators...

As for the "tempo of the offensive, in particular the PMC" Wagner "in the Donbass, they are in no way inferior to the pace of the offensive of the regular army of the" allies "in Europe, starting from the summer of 1944. Including the vaunted 82nd and 101st oh divisions...

Just in case, let me remind you that the same so-called. The "Siegfried Line", fortified by engineering no more strongly than the fortified areas of the Kyiv Nazis in the Donbass (in particular, near the Hürgentwald), the American REGULAR formations trampled around until Christmas 1944, and got stuck there until the "very Ardennes" ...

Carrying, to whom, sickly losses ...

[Skeptic3]

Buildings with vukami need to be leveled to zero and then go in.

And then what to do with the captured scorched earth?

[poquello]

Quote: Fisherman

Here, rather, there is a concentration of forces to strengthen the flanks and carry out long-range breakthroughs with the consolidation of positions, and this is no longer work for Wagner attack aircraft.

Yes, they are stupid, the landing there was initially on the flanks,
"On the third day, Eagle Eye noticed that the barn was missing one wall."

[Grandfather]

The American Institute for the Study of War announced an alleged slowdown in the offensive of Wagner PMC assault groups near Bakhmut

and themselves, looking out the window, and suddenly ....

[voice of reason]

Insane Institute! Do they think that a Wagner in one helmet will carry out military operations? Of course, they have there in the West, PMCs perform certain tasks, but what tasks-convoys to escort and guard oil rigs. And here is a classic war with fronts and high-intensity fighting. Wagner will play the role of a spearhead, which pierces the defenses especially successfully in urban areas, and then mobile units of the Russian Armed Forces come into play. Rifle units and reservists are fixed in the liberated territory, and armored and mechanized, under the cover of artillery, press further through a breakthrough in the front into fields and forest plantations. and the paratroopers and marines are the first in such an offensive due to the fact that their vehicles are equipped with a large number of reconnaissance devices, and their training and combat effectiveness and mobility are higher. In our country, these units perform the same role as that of the enemy DRG on light wheeled vehicles. Determination of the front line of the enemy's defense and the search for a bypass of the defense nodes.

[Vyacheslav57]

accordingly, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have the opportunity to recapture the city, pulling up reserves.

It seems that this American Institute for the Study of War is working on the left. To throw such a carrot to the ukroreich that they are about to take back Bakhmut / Artyomovsk, you just need to tighten up the reserves. Working in cooperation with this institute of the Airborne Forces of the Russian Federation, these reserves are waiting on the outskirts so as not to run after them through the fields later. Oil painting. And the front was exposed, having removed the reserves, and en masse went to Bendery. Ah yes, the Institute for the Study of Something.

[igorbrsv]

Looks like it was posted here. Attack aircraft go forward, followed by infantry. When attack aircraft enter the fire bag, infantry provides support
Well, the Americans did not read. got lazy

[Bingo]

Guys, I recommend reading the foreign press. It generally says that the front is stabilized and motionless, they just create the illusion of sitting in the trenches, a la WWI. This is how you perceive the next propaganda. Here the meaning of THEIR publication is to add to THEIR picture of the world "The parties have dug into the ground, Russia has exhausted even the forces of the Wagner Group and is replacing them. However, the Ukrainian offensive in recent days has also had modest successes"
Guys, there are no Soledars in sight. You do not understand what they are writing about, they simply comment on the picture that was created by the press before. Ukraine is advancing in it, we are fighting back, sometimes throwing Wagner suicide bombers into counterattacks to slow down the offensive, but they are already writing out - they are over

[invisible_man]

New York Times:

"Ukraine says that its forces have retreated from Soledar after an intense battle. Ukraine's military acknowledged a gain for Russian forces that brings them closer to encircling the strategic eastern city of Bakhmut".

Translation: "Ukraine says its units retreated from Soledar after intense fighting. The Ukrainian military has acknowledged an achievement by Russian forces that brings them closer to encircling the strategically important town of Bakhmut to the east."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/world/europe/ukraine-soledar-retreat.html

[Bingo]

Do you want about NYT? Come on:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/us/politics/tanks-ukraine.html

When satellite imagery showed the Russians building primary and secondary defensive trench lines along the front lines, U.S. government analysts began the year with predictions that a deadly stalemate would be the likely outcome in 2023. Worried that a frozen conflict could play into Russia's hands, the United States and its allies have begun more serious discussions about how to change the dynamics of the struggle in Ukraine's favor.

A note slips through - oh-vey, the village of Kuryatino, to advance somewhere. What it is? The American did not understand. He was given this as the Russians took the porch on the front line to start storming the barn, and the front itself was standing. And this is how it stands and how everything needs to be urgently changed in order to clear Ukraine of Russians in less than six months - there is an article I cited

[invisible_man]

When there is real progress, the Western press writes about it.
You have provided a link to the forecast. Forecasts are published there regularly, they do not always sound adequate (for example, in February last year they predicted the fall of Kyiv in 3 days), but no one bypasses the real situation.

[Bingo]

I wrote to you about the picture that the media paints. One can mention real n.p. and that they were taken, but do not explain what it is. Not to say, for example, that in the battles for Artemovsk and Soledar, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have already been tritely drained of blood. Simply - the Russians took the village. By the way, this is how Latynina lisps, for example. The meaning of this is not to give, to present from one point of view - a barn has been taken. There were no Soledars - there was no catastrophe with a meat grinder. The village of Soledar was simply taken, well, it’s like the “toad jumps” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were in the gray zone before the NWO - he landed in an unoccupied village, hung the flag. The same thing with the destruction of as many as several brigades, right?
It's worth the front, it's worth it. As in WWI - they sit in the trenches and do nothing.
By the way, it is precisely because the association with WWI is played up that they reacted so nervously in the West to Selyansky's refusal of the Christmas truce. They think that we have the same as with that Christmas truce, everyone sits in the trenches and waits to play football in neutral with the enemy

[igorbrsv]

The Western press writes only what they are allowed to write, and only when they are allowed to, when it is impossible to hide. At the same time, everything is presented quite softly. Otherwise, the case will be opened in an instant and accreditation will be deprived. Lifelong "tsik with nails" (quote from the film "Kin-dza-dza")

[Skeptic3]

they just create the illusion of sitting in the trenches, a la PMV

Soledar - this is precisely the scale of the movement of the front line in the era of WWI.

[bath]

I can't believe I didn't read on this site that a Pfizer employee admitted that Pfizer was creating a variant of the novel coronavirus for profit.

[igorbrsv]

I didn't see the article on this either.

[Skeptic3]

Why are there no articles about conspiracy theories in serious publications?

[Mountain shooter]

This is just an ambush for the APU. They lost so much in Soledar - they still take out coffins in columns. And from Artemovsk, apparently, it will be necessary to carry trains. And these are the reserves with which they were going to attack somewhere ... so for now everything is going as it goes. And if the real loss is 1:15, then the Ukrainian will end much earlier than he is going to "on the offensive."

[Alien From]

We hear about this Wagner every day, about the people's militia of the republics too, but where is our mo? In summaries?

[dmi.pris1]

On the Zvezda TV channel in the news and author's programs. Military men, and even more so bloggers, are not allowed to enter the active army.

[Alien From]

Why are they not allowed? Do they want to hide something unsightly from the people? So one mobilization showed EVERYTHING!

[gromit]

We hear about Wagner every day, because. they paid for their ads. And the FAN, where both Tsargrad and Russia and the free press and military correspondents, belongs to the oligarch Prigozhin.

[Repellent]

Quote from Gromit

We hear about Wagner every day, because. they paid for their ads

Attention, the question is: why does Wagner need advertising in the Russian Federation? This is a state PMC, whoever needs it knows about it anyway ...

Quote from Gromit

FAN, where both Tsargrad and Rusveshna and the free press and military correspondents, belongs to the oligarch Prigozhin

Will there be evidence, or "gentlemen take their word for it"? And, yes - the word "oligarch" means a little different, you are ... slurred

[Skeptic3]

Wagner fights for power, influence and resources like no other. That's what advertising is for.
And denying the obvious is a standard trolling technique.

[alexey_444]

Small armies (including Wagnerians) are good, but they have one significant drawback - they quickly end. Naturally, there are losses, only losses are not comparable to those of the Orcs, otherwise our prisons were empty and not a single Wagnerian was left in Africa, even if we accept the loss of one of ours and five Orcs. I’m interested in something else, but they still see that this battle is not going in favor of the outskirts, this is some kind of genocide in relation to the orcs, it’s clear that the West is also full of Bandera, they still have to digest other nationalities and digest those who have come in large numbers.

[Roma 1977]

"Orks" are Russians. In the Ukrainian narrative, the enemy is dehumanized in this way. They are "warriors of light", "elves", "a shield of European civilization from Asian hordes". Such formulations fit perfectly into the clip-art teenage consciousness of Ukrainians. It would be wrong to call them Orcs. Like: "-@#$! - Himself @#$!". In the Russian language there is a more mature, adult, appropriate definition of the cultural phenomenon of Ukrainians and Ukrainians - demons.

[_KGB-USSR_]

Quote: Roma-1977

"Orks" are Russians. In the Ukrainian narrative, the enemy is dehumanized in this way. They are "warriors of light", "elves", "a shield of European civilization from Asian hordes". Such formulations fit perfectly into the clip-art teenage consciousness of Ukrainians. It would be wrong to call them Orcs. Like: "-@#$! - Himself @#$!". In the Russian language there is a more mature, adult, appropriate definition of the cultural phenomenon of Ukrainians and Ukrainians - demons.

Since we are "Orcs", then dill is naturally "Zerg". Cheap, disposable, attack by numbers. It suits them best, I saw someone already wrote about it here:
https://topwar.ru/102215-vatnik-zachem-vsu-ispolzuyut-zerg-rash.html

[Dmitry Karabanov]

The main thing is to save our children! And, of course, the army must support both the "musicians" and the militias - the main thing is that the Nazis be destroyed with fewer losses!

[Andrey1966]

Even if they slowed down and slowed down. And what?

[Evgeny]

I don’t know something, but Bakhmut was taken, it seems, for a long time by ours ????

[Blackgrifon]

You are confusing something. The battle for Bakhmut (Artemovsk) has been going on for several months now. Only recently it was possible to take Soledar, semi-cover Seversk and Bakhmut. 404 constantly throws units there - both territories and personnel officers more valuable to them. Knocking out the latter has been repeatedly stated by various military commanders and experts as one of the main goals of the battle for Bakhmut (in addition to taking the city and breaking through the front).

[Skeptic3]

The attackers, as a rule, suffer losses many times higher than the defenders.
How can the goal of an offensive be to drive out the enemy's manpower?

[Blackgrifon]

"As a rule" - this applies to irregular militias and lightly armed forces. And it didn’t really work during WWII. Not to mention the conflicts of the second half of the twentieth century.

In addition, regarding goals:

Quote: Blackgrifon

was declared by various military commanders and experts as one of

Whether to believe them or not is a personal matter.

[Blackgrifon]

The American Institute for the Study of War announced an alleged slowdown in the offensive of Wagner PMC assault groups near Bakhmut

And on January 29.01, another news comes about the capture of another settlement by fighters from PMCs ...

[igorbrsv]

Everything is correct. Why did you take it so slowly? There in the west they managed to crap, but not to dry
It's inhuman and degrading

[75 Sergey]

I don't get it, are they pushing us?
They then something of our pace?!

[Ezekiel 25-17]

Bakhmut must be leveled with the ground: then we will restore it.

[Skeptic3]

Restore will be at our expense. This must be understood.

[lubesky]

Banal incompetence from a seemingly competent resource. The states do not know the difference between assault squads and a MILITARY operation ??? Everyone is busy with their own business, interacting with all branches of the military. In the case of assault squads in urban combat, such interaction is minimal.

[Vladimirsky]

The more the enemy is mistaken (now no longer "probable" - real), the better.

[Vyacheslav V.]

Everything that happens in Bakhmut is spiritual ananism. A square, an air raid (bombers). After that, let the journalists think about the effectiveness of bombing from the highest altitude. And young pilots will receive their first baptism of fire.

[Vyacheslav V.]

It is always necessary to destroy what causes a military clash. Are they fighting for Bakhmut? It makes no sense to fight for the ruins. It's just that everyone is afraid to take responsibility. SUDDENLY THEN THEY WILL NOT ALLOW European PALACES to dine and cuddle with European prostitutes meanness. This is supposedly in Energosbyt, the payment on the first day is paid, the accountant made the payment on the 20th and a normal person is listed as a debtor. And the bitch is his coordinates for the sale of property. Rot ... And she nits the order, she found the enemy of Energosbyt. The fool will not understand that she will die in the Energosbyt building under the rubble of reinforced concrete.

[AdinRoman]

Cool, today there is less manure in the comments. This is what life-giving Shabbat does!

[UAZ 452]

Slow down?! "Wagner" in Bakhmut has been successfully moving forward since August last year - how much more slowly?

[Nikolaevich I]

The pace of the offensive of Russian troops in the Donbass is allegedly slowing down,
The quieter you go, the further you'll get !

[GN]

What can they write? In 45, Hitler also wrote and said that the Red Army was about to lose the war !! Very soon ukroreich will cease to exist from the word COMPLETELY!!!

[flicker]

Indeed, personnel units of the Russian army operate in the Bakhmut area, but at a considerable distance from the city, they hold the flanks and conduct their own offensive in collaboration with the musicians

So.

In Bakhmut itself, only Wagner attack aircraft work, while, as Yevgeny Prigozhin emphasized, the task of immediately taking the city is not worth it, the main goal is grind as much as possible the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Everything is absolutely correct.

[Sebastian Aristarkhovich Pereira]

No wonder, they know better there, in America, than we do!

[NikolayDS]

The bottom line is that they are presenting the slowdown of the front as a victory for Ukraine. Those. even one of the propaganda centers in the United States has some disappointment with the military situation in Ukraine. They just wrote earlier that in the winter serious hostilities in Ukraine would come to naught and the front would rise. And then such a bummer with Soledar. For them, of course, this is a "shed by a barn", but the forecasts did not come true - and this is money. Therefore, they have such an idea: the front has stopped, which means that the offensive has fizzled out, which means that we made the right forecast that the hostilities will be "frozen" ... and that Soledar - well, that's a shed and it's not counting!