Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner PMC:
“Today, May 20, 2023, at 12:00 local time, Bakhmut was completely captured. The last section of the city’s development, the so-called multi-story “Airplane” complex, was seized.
The operation to capture Bakhmut lasted 224 days.
The Bakhmut meat grinder began on October 8, 2022, to give the embattled Russian army a chance to come to its senses. For 224 days the men stormed that city. The only people here were the Wagner PMCs. There was no, as Konoshenkov said, Airborne troops or anyone else who could help us. We helped ourselves.
The operation to capture Bakhmut lasted 224 days.
“The Bakhmut meat grinder” began on October 8, 2022, to give the embattled Russian army a chance to come to its senses. For 224 days the men stormed that city. The only people here were the Wagner PMCs. There was no, as Konoshenkov said, Airborne troops or anyone else who could help us. We helped ourselves.
The Wagner PMC came voluntarily to this war and began to liberate territories, protecting the interests of our homeland.
In the Wagner PMC, everyone, generals, former police and FSB officers, prisoners acted here in unison, as one team, as one army.
I want to say Thank you to the Russian people, who supported us!
Thank you to those guys who died in this war! Both Russian Defense Ministry soldiers and members of the Wagner PMC! Thank you to those who are with us now! Thank you to those who are with us now! Thank you to those who couldn’t continue the contract and to those who will be back to us and fighting shoulder to shoulder with us in the future! Thanks to General Surovikin and General Mezentsev, who gave us the opportunity to conduct this difficult operation! Thank you, Vladimir Putin, for providing us with the opportunity and high honor to defend our homeland!
We fought not only the AFU in Bakhmut, we fought the Russian bureaucracy, which was putting sticks in our wheels.
This is especially true of near-war bureaucrats. Their names are partially known. They are Shoigu and Gerasimov, who turned war into their own entertainment, who decided that their whims in war would be fulfilled. Five times as many soldiers died as they could have because of their whims. And someday in history they will answer for their actions, in Russian, wickedness.
We have prepared lists of those who helped us and those who opposed us, actually helping the enemy in this case.
Today we captured Bakhmut. On May 25, we will begin to withdraw our units for rest and retraining.
We have been at war for 427 days, since March 19, 2022, when our homeland needed our help.
We completely captured the whole city from house to house, so that no one could pedantically reproach us for not taking at least a little bit of it.
By May 25, we will completely inspect the city, create defense lines and hand it over to the Defense Ministry. We, ourselves, will go out to the field camps. Then, when our country, our people, our families need us again, we will come back and defend our people, if necessary.
These guys will now take and set up the flags they have in their hands, the flag of the Wagner PMC and the flag of Russia.”
me, the leader of the wagner terrorists don’t want to get a bullet in my brain so i’m just pretending to capture a city that’s being encircled by ukrainian forces.
@lenin
yes, warheads on foreheads, and flatheads become dead-heads aka skulls and skeletons immediately. so the ruskies declare victory, cut and run to the field camps, hoping to be able to do so before the caulderon is closed around them and f-16s and himars, hellfires, jdams, moabs and storms are pulverizing them, big time !
last week the wagner terrorists wanted to retreat from bakhmut and now all of the sudden they magically captured it after moscow threatened to execute them as deserters.
and the girl in your picture is a flathead actually.
geez, another deluded troll!
there are tons and tons of trolls here today!
despierta idiota que el golpe que te vas a dar va a ser inmenso
keep dreaming, sbu svetlana, keep dreaming. unfortunately, these dreams of yours, about moabs, f-16, storms and the rest of wunderwaffen are just that – dreams, not reality. you lost. that’s it. begining of the end of nato serving ukros. say, how many of you are in the good company of bandera and the crew since february 2022? more is coming.
you should change your name to john snow, because you know nothing. encircled, more like the rats fleeing the city don’t know which way it is to ukrainian lines and keep overrunning russian defensive outposts.
i’m lenin the disgusting russian revolutionary with a putrified face in a museum.
i dislike both wagner and lenin and i support czars.
you mean the failed attempts to encircle? the russiasn retook more advantageous land in the north just yesterday. the ukrainians have suffered between 3000 and 4000 casualties from their attempts as quoted by sheepish and american military officials and observers (off the records of course and anonymously.)
the ukrainians failed to achieve any significant gains and lost far too much to congratulate for open fields and lightly wooded areas
when prigotzine speaks, you know it’s true, bakner 100% conquered. (if any remaining bags don’t surrender, take no prisoners.)
now please russia, keep crushing the flanks, possible enemy raids and rear buildups – soltenpek, fab 500, hurricanes and jacintos.
until the ukrainians themselves hang the nato sepoy in kyiv.
it’s true as a figment of his own imagination who doesn’t want to get shot by the kremlin that just threatened him as a traitor.
billions of dollars for a defeat, what a scam.
i have read it somewhere that the us neocons soon will try to designate wagner pmc as a terrorist group, just do not remember where i rid it that and u lenin fuck u
crikey but you are a seriously deluded troll!
yer an idiot!
let’s see if there will be complete media silence or just outright denial about this. i don’t think zelensky can use this bad news, his handlers are expecting results. all these “game changer” weapons and they still only manage to recapture some pastures and half a street every now and then
imo this war changed the relationship between media and public. for the 1st time people realized the scale of the scam that msm is, and they simply don’t believe what they say
they realized that during the covid hysteria.
the public also want to know where all these billions of dollars ended up…
bbc is already running a story denying it. lying to your public is no way to win a war, telling them the truth is when people who can make a difference step up.
oceania is supreme! we have always been at war with eastasia! hate!hate!hate!
congratulations russia!
idk but it looks like this war is going to be over very, very soon. in a matter of weeks or even days?
yeah, i remember all the terrorists like you saying the exact thing in february of last year. it was a total freakshow.
that’s all you ukranazis trolls bring up the very beginning of russias smo, guess what that’s then, the past, today after a bloody battle with afu ukranazis, wagner has accomplished their mission bahkmut is liberated!
everyone wishes the killing could stop but realistically that point in time is a long way off. putin has declared that this is a battle for the future of the world. a battle to dethrone the dollar. a battle to defrock the western banking cartels. if so this war has just begun and bakhmut may be like the first battle of ypres.
the west, for all its apparent decadence and corruption, remains the industrial engine of the world and is able to marshal vast material support indefinitely. wagner should get out fast and hope that rf mod sends replacements before wagner perishes in place.
no industrial engine of the world without commodities…
has anyone noticed that zelensky is staying as far away from ukraine as possible!
if z has any sense he wont return at all.
he’s done, it’s only a matter of time.
prigozhin is a real warrior !
his speech deserves respect because his words are truthful and have a sense of honour.
please russian people come to your senses.
dear putin, you have to listen to prighozin, give him an audience and make changes. mens lives are being needlessly lost so hear putin.
thank you for your service and the extremely hardwork of your men. enjoy your time away from the front, retraining, relaxing and healing. while i would love to say you have done enough, it is highly likely that wagner will be required in the coming months and i hope its done with the upmost respect for you and your men. i do wish you will not be needed, but if you are, that you become the fist that finishes this fight once and for all!
and let’s not forget the humanitarian operations of wagner. it certainly was no fun task to collect, id, put in coffins and return to sender all those stinking ukrainian corpses so their families could get closure. certainly this is far more ethical behaviour than the genocidal ukrainian habit of shelling bus stops, schools, markets and hospitals.
večná sláva a vďaka hrdinom. obyvatelia mesta na nich nikdy nezabudnú. priniesli im mier a slobodu!!!
good news!
let the self-sacrifice and fighting commitment of the wagners be an example for others in the fight against the nazi kiev regime.
honor and glory to the brave men that fought this battle against the nato supported nazi army, to its full victory.
deci zona administrativa bahmut e in intregime eliberata. nu spuneti nimanui. vestul nu trebuie sa stie. ne vedem la reni!
de multe ori am stat si m-am gândit că dacă pe românia nu o interesează recuperarea teritorilor furate de ucraina și soarta românilor de acolo, ar fi bine ca acele teritorii să fie incorporate rusiei, cel puțin românilor de acolo le-ar fi mai bine decât de nepăsarea și cinismul cu care sunt tratați / ignorați de către țara mamă sau exterminați de către regimul nazist de la kiev.
va dau dreptate. fara sa fie trecuti prin detectorul de minciuni lunar, n as avea incredere in sefii romani.
will he be declaring the capture of the city again in the future like he did in the past?
glad that prigozhin have named the culprits for the persistent problems with ammunition.
russian people have right to know, who is supportive and who is putting himself above the interests of the country in this war.
i do hope that putin will straighten up those 2 envious guys. to do their job properly, the way they should. and not to interfere with wagner again.
so all the bombardment behind the line didn’t help the musicians. all those destroyed weapons and manpower before they reached bakhmut was not helping. get a grip prigozhin
so in your opinion wagner had obligation to take entire ukrainian army by themselves?!?
they did plenty already as it is. much more than majority!
be cause wagner have attracted tens of thousands (mostly) of the best ukrainian troops to their section of the front.
enormous loses of the ukrainian troops in the “meat grinder”, and liberation of the soledar and their surroundings are their merit entirely.
since they by far had the most difficult task to do, they merited all the support they could get! but they didn’t get it be cause of envy!
felicitaciones sinceras a los chicos de wagner.
glória aos wagners! poder e vitórias incessantes aos soldados russos!
glory to the wagner!
shoigu is civil engineer. with the rank general of the army, even though he never saw military academy from inside in his life.
and russia has plenty of generals. why do they need this incompetent civilian?!
geez. do you really want people to comment? fix your comment board. it’s unreal all the click trolls infesting this place. get another moderator or dump it altogether, it’s worthless as it is now. even israeli owned disqus is better that this crap.