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A video has appeared on social networks showing the humiliating retreat – or rather the flight – of Russian soldiers near Bahmut. This event happened on the same day that the Russian president Vladimir Putin staged another military parade for Victory Day, but with significantly reduced dimensions than usual due to the devastating losses of Russian military forces in Ukraine.
The footage confirms reports that regular Russian forces have ‘turned and fled’, with Kiev claiming to be making territorial gains after months of Russian advances. The video shows Russian forces fleeing the battlefield around the eastern Ukrainian city after being overwhelmed by Ukraine’s 3rd Assault Brigade.
He was the first to claim that Yevgeny Prigozhinthe head of the infamous mercenary private army Wagner, while criticizing the performance of the Russian regular armed forces, and especially their commanders, in this battle that has been raging for months.
Footage of the Russian retreat, as reported Daily Mailwas published as Putin, in his annual speech at the Victory Day parade on Red Square on Tuesday, told his soldiers: “Your combat activities are now of the utmost importance. The security of the country depends on you today, as well as the future of our statehood and our people.”
Ukraine claims to have eliminated 64 Russian fighters of the occupying Russian forces and left another 87 wounded, and captured many Russian soldiers on the southwestern edge of Bakhmut.
As reported by the US think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Prigozhin claimed that the Russian 72nd Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 3rd Army Corps abandoned a strategic position, resulting in the loss of about 500 fighters of the Wagner group.
A Ukrainian unit announced on Wednesday that it had forced a Russian infantry brigade to withdraw from an area near Bakhmut, confirming a recent statement by the leader of the Russian mercenary group Wagner that Russian forces had fled.
“Our army is running away. The 72nd Brigade lost three square kilometers this morning, where we lost around 500 people,” Prigožin said.
The Armed Forces confirmed the statement of the head of the “Wagner” PMK, Yevgeny Prigozhin, that 72 separate motorized rifle brigades of the Russian Armed Forces escaped from Bakhmut pic.twitter.com/QtvhF7etVI
— Ukrainian truth ️ (@ukrpravda_news) May 9, 2023
