President of Ukraine Zelensky said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine would not surrender Bakhmut

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President of Ukraine Zelensky said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine would not surrender Bakhmut

The Ukrainian army will not surrender Bakhmut (as Artemovsk is called in Kyiv). This was stated by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking at the final press conference after the Ukraine-EU summit.

Recall that the Ukraine-EU summit was held today in Kyiv. It was attended by senior leaders of the European Commission, including Ursula von der Leyen and Josep Borrell.



As Zelensky noted, in Bakhmut (Artemovsk), the Armed Forces of Ukraine will "fight as much as they can." That is, he actually confirmed his commitment to his original line of not leaving the city and continuing to hold it at any cost, despite the colossal losses of the Ukrainian formations.

Interestingly, earlier adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak noted that Kyiv pays a very high price for keeping Artemivsk. But, apparently, Zelensky made his choice, and given that he uttered these words at the end of the Ukraine-EU summit, it is possible that such a decision was made either “for the Western public” or by agreement with high-ranking European guests.

Recall that at present, the forces of PMC "Wagner" with the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the assault on Artemovsk. Fighting was previously reported on the outskirts of this city. In the city itself, destroyed Ukrainian military equipment is on fire. Even American analysts have repeatedly stated that the UAF will eventually have to leave Artemovsk anyway.
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  1. +21
    3 February 2023 18: 24
    Well, okay. We wanted the best. We'll have to bury
    1. +15
      3 February 2023 18: 39
      and this is wonderful, the more already trained utyrks will be deleted from the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, new ones still need to be prepared.
      1. +4
        3 February 2023 19: 06
        the fact of the matter is that mobilized Selyuks are driven there, and the trained ones are protected until spring ... unfortunately, Wagners also suffer losses there, and not Selyuks, but trained fighters ...
        1. +7
          3 February 2023 19: 13
          These selyuks could be already prepared in a few months .. But they won’t be. Maxim died. However, you are right that they are taken to the rear and retain combat-ready units
          1. +2
            4 February 2023 01: 21
            “Dear Vladimir Alexandrovich, many people are asking you to withdraw troops from Bakhmut. Do not do that. Artemovsk is the main event of this war. We must keep fighting. You will show cowardice. You will no longer be respected. The Ukrainian people will not forgive you for surrendering Artemovsk to a private military structure. Resist. Fight to the end,” Prigozhin said in a statement published by his press service.

            bully
          2. 0
            4 February 2023 05: 56
            Well, to the end, so to the end. Until your end, Zelensky.
            1. 0
              4 February 2023 09: 06
              Quote from Egeni
              Well, to the end, so to the end. Until your end, Zelensky.

              Are you talking about the piano cover? feel
              1. 0
                4 February 2023 12: 00
                Well, yes, although don’t knock like a piano, the end is near anyway.)
                Actually, I am offended by your last attack, and so I answer - no, no and no.
                And ... let's live together.)
        2. +2
          3 February 2023 19: 19
          Don't care about your Selyuks, if they don't give up, then they are enemies! Leave for fertilizer. Now I began to understand why there is such a thick layer of humus in the steppes of Ukraine! This is not the first time that hordes of enemies have been buried there.
      2. +3
        3 February 2023 20: 02
        For those who have not yet understood: The task is - if you surrender the territory - then only ruins, scorched earth, without a population, the entire population is resettled along with the retreating troops, so that there is no one to vote on further accession. Thus, the visitor receives the territory turned into a desert. The question arises: then what and why do the Russian troops regret, if the territory is already supposed to be unwound in the trash?
        1. +1
          4 February 2023 01: 52
          Losing the war and retreating, Bandera invaders
          will destroy as much as possible on Russian soil.
          Life so-called. Ukrainians are not important to impudent Saxon Satanists.
          Moreover, the majority of the population of Galicia (formerly Ukraine)
          now they are just zombies living in an alternate reality.
          Fashington-London global kagal is only interested in profit and
          causing maximum damage to the geopolitical competitor - Russia.
          The tactics of the NATO Reich are not new ☠️
          All this has already happened.
          With predecessors, in 1943-45.
          I hope the end will be the same.
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    2. +3
      3 February 2023 19: 19
      Rather, they are preparing another dirty trick, muck, baseness and TD and TP. They perfectly understand that they will have to surrender and at the same time they pretend that they are preparing for a grand battle. There are two conclusions, the first is that they are really going to go all-in, the second is a bluff! They have one dream, to destroy more Russians, but they do not care about the territory. All as ordered for a puddle. My opinion and advice for ours is to ignore this clown's fart and do your job correctly and methodically. They panicked.
      1. 0
        3 February 2023 20: 14
        The fact that Zelensky said something is not a fact that it will actually be so. Lies and disinformation are war, this is Ukraine.
      2. 0
        3 February 2023 20: 16
        Quote: Argon
        Rather, they are preparing another dirty trick, muck, baseness and TD and TP. They perfectly understand that they will have to surrender and at the same time they pretend that they are preparing for a grand battle. There are two conclusions, the first is that they are really going to go all-in, the second is a bluff! They have one dream, to destroy more Russians, but they do not care about the territory. All as ordered for a puddle. My opinion and advice for ours is to ignore this clown's fart and do your job correctly and methodically. They panicked.

        This statement is most likely for the European idiots who secretly gathered in Kyiv. Like thieves.
    3. +3
      3 February 2023 19: 30
      Better just bury it.
      Other options are worse. soldier
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  2. +3
    3 February 2023 18: 25
    decided to use more
  3. +3
    3 February 2023 18: 26
    Well, it’s good, then you’ll have to look for less in the caches and all over the world for Bandera ..
    We will dispose of everyone in a bunch. I think we will not take prisoners! Well done Zelya, weeds dill and hopes for Western tanks Zelya will die funny hung on Khreshchatyk ..!
    1. -1
      4 February 2023 10: 03
      Quote from Luka Nord
      I think we will not take prisoner!

      No, you don't need to be captured. Their captivity is flowing in warmth, satiety and comfort ... while others - in general, on the beaches of Turkey.
      The Nazis must be destroyed.
    2. 0
      4 February 2023 10: 09
      And it must be hung for the very organ with which he played the piano.
  4. +7
    3 February 2023 18: 29
    If he wants it, so be it. In any case, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will have to be destroyed, they hope that they will come to their senses and turn their weapons against the neo-Nazis, and therefore in Artemovsk it’s like that in Artemovsk.
    1. +6
      3 February 2023 18: 57
      Quote: Murmur 55
      they hope that they will come to their senses and do not have to turn their weapons against neo-Nazis

      The generation that is now fighting on the Ukrainian side no longer knows how their parents lived under the USSR, they do not know the history of the Second World War. For them, now the enemy is Russia, so there is no need to talk about brotherhood, friendship and a single Russian identity, this is for Ukraine, everything is in the past.
      1. +2
        3 February 2023 19: 29
        tihonmarine, the Internet is full of videos where faces flash from THAT side who are far over 40 and 50, and therefore there are many more who remember the USSR, in the video from Kherson there are a lot of elderly people among the active WAITING, so they remember everything, they just always were like that and as for the unity of peoples, here you are right for a long time, if not forever, to be forgotten.
        1. +1
          3 February 2023 20: 20
          It must be understood that not all waiters are among the waiters. Many, mostly elderly, are afraid of the unknown, do not really believe in any authorities, have their own home, their own property. And give it all up? And, let's say, in 50 years to start life anew? It's easy to say waiting. But what would each of us do in their place, and even poisoned by nationalist propaganda?
      2. 0
        3 February 2023 19: 30
        Quote: tihonmarine
        Quote: Murmur 55
        they hope that they will come to their senses and do not have to turn their weapons against neo-Nazis

        The generation that is now fighting on the Ukrainian side no longer knows how their parents lived under the USSR, they do not know the history of the Second World War. For them, now the enemy is Russia, so there is no need to talk about brotherhood, friendship and a single Russian identity, this is for Ukraine, everything is in the past.

        Well, it will be seen later.
        Ukrainians quickly adapt and change their shoes.
        I thought that there would be an eternal war with the Chechens.
        And it turned out how it turned out, sanity won.
        So time will tell.
        If anyone is incorrigible, it is the Galician Mr.. for.
        Here they need to be isolated .... who will remain alive.
        From there, all Bandera rot.
      3. +1
        3 February 2023 19: 34
        Quote: tihonmarine
        The generation that is now fighting on the Ukrainian side no longer knows how their parents lived under the USSR
        and in which country of the former USSR do they know this? those who were born even in the late 80s - they are already 35 years old and some have 3 children and grandchildren .. I don’t really remember much anymore, but I’m over 40 .. therefore our children don’t remember much about brotherhood, but after 20 -30 years, if Ukraine remains, then in general almost no one will remember the USSR .. it can become "Lithuania", it would be sad ..
  5. yho
    +6
    3 February 2023 18: 29
    We must also declare Bakhmut a fortress, and give the head of the garrison the rank of Field Marshal.
    1. +4
      3 February 2023 18: 32
      Quote from Yoho
      and the head of the garrison - field marshal general.

      The orderlies there are familiar, they saw Zelensky as Napoleon ...
    2. 0
      4 February 2023 10: 11
      I doubt that this will force the chief of defense to put a bullet in his head.
  6. +8
    3 February 2023 18: 29
    Zelensky turned Bakhmut (Artemovsk) into his sacred victim. The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that die in this city are just expendable material for Zelensky, like "and we are also giving birth ...". From a clown, he made himself a slave owner, his slaves in military uniform meekly go to their deaths. Something was remembered by analogy with Hitler's gas chambers ...
  7. +1
    3 February 2023 18: 29
    In vain the old woman is waiting for her son home ...
  8. +2
    3 February 2023 18: 30
    As Zelensky noted, in Bakhmut (Artemovsk) the Armed Forces of Ukraine will "fight as much as they can"
    If 25 thousand Ukrainian soldiers were laid in Soledar, then in Bakhmut-Artemovsk there will be at least thirty, and maybe all fifty.
    Two slogans - "Not a day without a record" and "Until the last Ukrainian" - in one ̶f̶l̶a̶k̶o̶... a city that does not represent a strategic value (as the ukrodeyateley of different ranks themselves already say)...
    1. +1
      3 February 2023 19: 09
      Quote from: nik-mazur
      If 25 thousand Ukrainian soldiers were laid in Soledar, then in Bakhmut-Artemovsk there will be at least thirty, and maybe all fifty.

      Pardon my French, but 30 was there before New Year's Eve. After the holiday, a month of grueling battles has passed.
      1. -1
        3 February 2023 20: 13
        Quote from: topol717
        30 was there before NG
        It seems that 25 tr was called after the liberation of Soledar. And in Bakhmut-Artemovsk, of course, they will count when everything is over there ...
  9. +9
    3 February 2023 18: 33
    Ukraine demands from the West to give it all the weapons it has.
    Podolyak demanded to supply Ukraine with more weapons and to do it faster.
    “We need to give everything we have today. That is, reactivate it, if necessary, or even give it from combat duty,” he said.
    And it all started with "free" Nuland cookies...
    1. 0
      3 February 2023 21: 03
      Ukraine's desire is understandable. Ukraine (Zelensky & Co) wants to win, but the US is categorically against it. They do not need Ukraine's victory or its defeat - it will be their defeat, when everything is just starting so beautifully. All deliveries of weapons are very verified. Ze is not an idiot, he understands that. He cannot jump off, but he hopes that he will suddenly outplay and beg for a little more than for defense.
  10. -4
    3 February 2023 18: 33
    tsipsina went minus laughing laughing
    norms comment
  11. +4
    3 February 2023 18: 33
    Zelensky is a real gravedigger of his own people to whom he swore allegiance, although obviously the people of this "Ukrainian leader" live in the promised land, along with his family.
    1. -1
      3 February 2023 23: 04
      Maybe a gravedigger, but he will win the next election, but in our country ... I'm not sure that there will be elections ...
  12. -6
    3 February 2023 18: 36
    This is a statement by an actor for our and the Okrainsk fools. They will leave 2-3 hundreds of mobilized, and all the rest will calmly under the cover of night come out at Yar or somewhere else. Then it will be possible to promote it as a heroic defense, and ours will spend another month and hundreds of fighters negative
    1. -1
      3 February 2023 19: 18
      yes, yes, twenty KAMAZ trucks of frozen invaders were given out from Soledar - everyone calmly departed - though not to the tracking lines, as you are trying to prove here, but to another world.
  13. -8
    3 February 2023 18: 36
    Good article, I liked it. hi

    https://m-kalashnikov.livejournal.com/4353633.html

    So I propose not to rejoice that the Armed Forces of Ukraine remain in Artyomovsk, there is nothing good in this, first of all, for us. hi
    1. -1
      3 February 2023 19: 01
      So it has already happened. 90 percent, judging by what they write from Kyiv, already hate Russians and are not going to give up)). And what, should we stop the war or what? There is no other choice but to destroy them, and the more the better. And so it already happened, about what they write in the article.
      1. 0
        3 February 2023 19: 07
        Quote from Sss Sss
        So it has already happened. 90 percent, judging by what they write from Kyiv, already hate Russians and are not going to give up)). And what, should we stop the war or what? There is no other choice but to destroy them, and the more the better. And so it already happened, about what they write in the article.


        Did you read the article carefully? There, among other things, it is written HOW TO act in order to avoid a human meat grinder. What is made of it?
      2. 0
        3 February 2023 19: 21
        Quote from Sss Sss
        So it has already happened. 90 percent, judging by what they write from Kyiv, already hate Russians and are not going to give up)). And what, should we stop the war or what? There is no other choice but to destroy them, and the more the better. And so it already happened, about what they write in the article.

        You pay more attention to what they say and write in Kyiv.
        Now they have nothing else to say.
      3. +2
        3 February 2023 20: 24
        They hate, then they hate, but almost no one wants to go to the front.
    2. -3
      3 February 2023 19: 04
      So what do you suggest? Here Russia either needs to surrender, or grind them in this meat grinder, although there is a third option - to destroy everything, together with the civilian population, in a row, and everything.
      1. +1
        3 February 2023 19: 14
        Quote from Sss Sss
        So what do you suggest? Here Russia either needs to surrender, or grind them in this meat grinder, although there is a third option - to destroy everything, together with the civilian population, in a row, and everything.


        Try reading the article again. Whole. Only thoughtfully. hi
        It says what to do and how to do it.
    3. 0
      3 February 2023 19: 07
      Well, about reputation - greatly exaggerated in the article. The US fled from Afghanistan, only the heels sparkled. And there was not even a share of such battles as in Ukraine)). When they really have such an attitude and they brainwashed everyone - there are no options except for a meat grinder with the subsequent re-education of new generations)). Or what do you suggest? Blitzkrieg with hundreds of thousands of dead on our side))?
      1. +2
        3 February 2023 20: 18
        Better blitzkrieg without hundreds of thousands of our dead.
      2. yho
        -2
        4 February 2023 21: 28
        The United States did not run, but regrouped. Why do they need Afghanistan now, when such a fat piece is at stake? Relations with China deteriorated. So strategically they did the right thing.
    4. -2
      3 February 2023 20: 27
      Quote: Shoulder straps
      Good article
      Comrade smacks nonsense (but it still hurts). Oh, what a slaughter the Germans staged on the territory of Soviet Ukraine and nothing - the current Ukrainian citizens are ready to passionately kiss the Germans.
      And to set as an example the American army, which, like, knows how to blitzkrieg, is, in general, beyond common sense, if you remember eight years in Vietnam or 20 years in Afghanistan with a very shameful result. Although, yes, Grenada was defeated in just three days, using only about 8000 people, an aircraft carrier, a cruiser, a destroyer and a dozen other ships, more than 70 aircraft, 30 helicopters and a few tanks. All this is against an armada in the form of 1500 military for 10 BTR-60 plus 700 Cuban workers ...
      1. yho
        -1
        4 February 2023 21: 30
        In fact, Libya and Iraq were torn to shreds.
  14. +6
    3 February 2023 18: 38
    Men have more strength and patience, vsukam either surrender or death.
  15. -5
    3 February 2023 18: 45
    "Wagner" is very popular.
    But will it not turn out that Africa will become a trap for Wagner?
  16. +2
    3 February 2023 18: 46
    Here is a scoundrel, insolently runs into the Order of the Red Star, but he owes a maximum For merit of the 3rd degree, like Pugacheva and Allegrova
  17. +2
    3 February 2023 18: 46
    this is very good news, and the Stupidity of the Kyiv regime .. being in an operational environment, the enemy will be forced to waste resources. including tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.
  18. +4
    3 February 2023 18: 52
    it is possible that such a decision was made either “for the Western public”, or by agreement with high-ranking European guests.

    The latter is most likely, the West should know for what it invested tens of billions of dollars and euros. Just for the sake of "beautiful eyes" and ostentatious democracy, the West will never get a wallet out of your pocket.
  19. +2
    3 February 2023 18: 52
    So, that in the election campaign they spoke about peace at any cost, without a twinge of conscience, destroying the souls of their citizens.
  20. +15
    3 February 2023 18: 55
    How to correctly answer a Ukrainian or a Ukrainian about a special operation:
    “When you drive worms out of a cat, then for a doctor this is a special operation, for worms it’s a war, for a cat it’s a cleansing.” Folk.
    1. +2
      3 February 2023 19: 17
      Quote: bars042
      How to correctly answer a Ukrainian or a Ukrainian about a special operation:
      “When you drive worms out of a cat, then for a doctor this is a special operation, for worms it’s a war, for a cat it’s a cleansing.” Folk.

      Class! TTTTTTTTTTT lol good
    2. yho
      -1
      4 February 2023 21: 39
      This can be a cleansing for all of us.
  21. +2
    3 February 2023 18: 56
    Artemovsk has already turned into a burial ground for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, it’s not enough for him to see.
  22. +6
    3 February 2023 18: 58
    Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin addressed Zelensky:

    “Dear Vladimir Aleksandrovich, many people are asking you to withdraw troops from Bakhmut. Do not do that. Artemovsk is the main event of this war. We must keep fighting. You will show cowardice. You will no longer be respected. The Ukrainian people will not forgive you for surrendering Artemovsk to a private military structure. Resist. Fight to the end. Prigogine.
  23. +4
    3 February 2023 18: 59
    The only pity is the "meat" that they are being driven there to be slaughtered - not all of them are fascists, ready to die for the interests of the West!
  24. +4
    3 February 2023 19: 02
    Recall that the EU-Ukraine summit today took place in Kyiv.

    It seems that the cockroaches have become impudent at the end and are walking around the kitchen without paying attention to either the light or the dichlorvos. sad
    1. -2
      3 February 2023 19: 14
      Quote: Former soldier
      Recall that the EU-Ukraine summit today took place in Kyiv.

      It seems that the cockroaches have become impudent at the end and are walking around the kitchen without paying attention to either the light or the dichlorvos. sad

      I remembered a joke about how to get cockroaches out.
  25. 0
    3 February 2023 19: 03
    Am I the only one who has the feeling that Zelya is working for Putin?
  26. -1
    3 February 2023 19: 11
    So will they "fight as long as possible" or will they still "not surrender"?
    He is there in a drug addict's delirium, at least sometimes he understands what he says.
    In general, as my daughter used to say in her childhood, “it’s too late to rush about,” the fate of Artemovsk has been decided, it will be ours.
  27. +2
    3 February 2023 19: 12
    There is nothing good for us either. They buy time, drain our strength. Pay close attention to their tactics: they put so-so units under attack, the drums save and arm, and they hit the attackers and rebound, and so on more than once. Pay attention to the front they do not fall, they do not run. Blow everything down to level ground.
  28. +1
    3 February 2023 19: 52
    Quote: Egorych811
    the fact of the matter is that mobilized Selyuks are driven there, and the trained ones are protected until spring ... unfortunately, Wagners also suffer losses there, and not Selyuks, but trained fighters ...

    Yegorych, at one time I wrote,
    National batas are fighting on the front line, but where are the personnel officers ???
    Then they appeared and the scribe came.
    Rake our everything laughing
  29. 0
    3 February 2023 20: 03
    N'avait il pas déjà dit cela au sujet d'autres villes comme Soledar?!


    Didn't he say that before about other cities like Soledar?!
  30. 0
    3 February 2023 20: 10
    In principle, it is more convenient for us to dispose of them there. Bring shells and equipment closer. And almost all the destroyed houses are in Artemovsk. Let them rest here.
  31. 0
    3 February 2023 20: 14
    In my opinion, this is not bad. The main thing is not to give in. Let the artillery raze more of the stubborn to the ground.
  32. 0
    3 February 2023 20: 45
    Over time :
    -What did you give up...?
    - And everything is simple, we fought a little and we can’t do it anymore!
  33. 0
    3 February 2023 21: 07
    And Zelensky will become the very last Ukrainian in Artyomovsk?
  34. 0
    3 February 2023 22: 41
    As Zelensky noted, in Bakhmut (Artemovsk), the Armed Forces of Ukraine will "fight as much as they can."

    Hitler's reply to Paulus has been preserved:

    "I forbid surrendering. The 6th Army will hold its positions to the last man and to the last bullet, and with its heroic stamina will make an unforgettable contribution to the stabilization of the defense and the salvation of the Western world."
  35. +1
    3 February 2023 23: 31
    God willing, it will be so. This will be another major strategic mistake for the APU. The more wrong the enemy in his decisions, the better. Of the two evils, they decided to choose the deadliest, their right.
  36. +1
    4 February 2023 05: 16
    So they will kill you all there. And that means less of you.
  37. 0
    4 February 2023 07: 57
    We will destroy on the way!! Immediately upon crossing the border .., but better of course in Rzeszow, at the air base, in Greece, Italy and the TD ... Where are our MTRs, pennants, special forces along with the SVR! ??? Somebody knows???‽
  38. 0
    4 February 2023 08: 35
    PMC Wagner is a funeral company, they lied who they will leave alive there. PMC Wagner, if they play only funeral music.
  39. 0
    5 February 2023 03: 24
    The Ukrainian army will not surrender Bakhmut (as Artemovsk is called in Kyiv). This was stated by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking at the final press conference after the Ukraine-EU summit.

    the owners forbade
  40. -1
    8 February 2023 10: 19
    Hitler (Zelensky) demanded to keep the city of Sukhinichi (Artyomovsk) at any cost.
    History repeats itself.

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