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That’s a spin on the long Russian tradition of building camps full of ideological undesirables that I wasn’t expecting to see.
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Wagner group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose troops have done the bulk of the fighting in and around Bakhmut, said via his press service that what the defence ministry had described was in fact a “rout” which had seen troops flee.
He said Ukraine had been able to completely regain control of a crucial supply road that links Bakhmut with the town of Chasiv Yar and had seized useful higher ground, Reuters reported.
The risk, he said, was that if more ground was lost Ukrainian forces could gradually encircle Bakhmut.
Prigozhin, who has been openly feuding with Russia’s defence ministry for months, has repeatedly accused the top brass of sabotaging Wagner’s push for Bakhmut and this week accused them of doing too little to protect Bakhmut’s flanks.
The ministry appeared to push back against that assertion on Friday, saying that Ukrainian attempts to counterattack Bakhmut’s flanks were being repelled.
Prigozhin complained his men were still not getting enough shells and equipment, but said they were still advancing in Bakhmut and only needed to capture around a further 20 buildings to take full control of the city.
Bakhmut, much of which now lies in ruins, has been the focus of fierce fighting for months.
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What you’re saying is that there’s some undocumented sales…
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This is politics where there is supposed to be none. It is Russian domestic politics, boomeranging back from Ukraine. Christo Grozev believes that Prigozhin has been profiling himself as a rival or successor to Putin from the beginning of this war. Prigozhin has been putting his own image forward on billboards and Telegram videos with relentless regularity. Wagner has in general been more successful than the regular Russian army in gaining territory. And Prigozhin has not hesitated to make loud public claims on state resources on this logic.
More “politics where there is supposed to be none”:
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I believe Russia has officially complained about this song
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Came here to post the history lesson provided by the Ukraine 2016 Eurovision winner, as a good retort for anyone making the argument that Crimea is ‘really’ Russian, but of course you’ve already covered it!
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Is Russia trying to ensure that they win? 
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Russia proving that they aren’t at all petty in the least /s
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No, Russia was trying to demoralise them by making them wonder if any of their relatives or friends had been killed.
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Yes, I’m aware of that…
I’m saying that given how Ukraine and Europe has handled this war, it will likely backfire on Russia, and yet against stiffen resolve to continue on fighting the war by the Ukrainian public and to show support by the European public.
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