After the announcement of the capture of the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, which has been contested for months, which the leadership in Kiev and several Ukrainian military bloggers continue to deny, the head of the Wagner group of mercenaries warns of a defeat and a revolution in Russia.
If the children of ordinary Russians continue to come back in coffins while the children of the elite sunbathe abroad, Russia faces a turmoil similar to the 1917 revolutions that culminated in a civil war, the 61-year-old said in one of his telegrams channel published interview worried. Ukraine will try to encircle the city of Bakhmut in the east and attack the Crimean peninsula. “We must impose martial law” “Most likely, this scenario will not be good for Russia. So we need to prepare for a hard war,” Prigozhin said in the interview. “We are in such a state that we could damn well lose Russia – that’s the main problem… We have to impose martial law.” Troops control the southwestern outskirts of the city in the ‘Plane’ district.” Fighting continues in the suburbs. There, the Russian troops had partly gone over to the defense. The Ukrainians gained “insignificant” territory north and south of Bakhmut. Moscow announced at the weekend that it would take the city, which has since been completely destroyed.Moscow sticks to military goalsThe Kremlin says it is not interested in freezing the conflict in Ukraine. Russia will carry out the military special operation until it has asserted its interests and achieved its goals – either in the course of fighting or by “other available means,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. Moscow describes the war as a “military special operation”. According to Peskov, there are currently no signs of a possibility of a peaceful solution. Negotiations with Kiev are impossible because the Ukrainian leadership itself has “banned any kind of negotiations with Russia”. In fact, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called the withdrawal of Russian troops from the occupied territories as a prerequisite for talks.
