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ISW refererar till intervju med Wagner-gruppens grundare där han bekräftar den mycket långsamma framryckningen(10 m/dag…) i Bakhmut och skyller på brist på pansar och 100 mm ammunition (?):
Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin attempted to justify the Wagner Group’s lack of progress in Bakhmut, partially supporting ISW’s assessment that Russian forces in Bakhmut are culminating.[15] Russian state media outlet RIA Novosti amplified a December 31 interview with Prigozhin on January 3 in which Prigozhin stated that Wagner Group forces in Bakhmut are unable to break through Ukrainian defenses in Bakhmut.[16] Prigozhin stated that Wagner's offensive operations in Bakhmut are highly attritional because each house in Bakhmut is a “fortress,” that Ukrainians have defensive lines every 10 meters, and that Russian forces must clear building-by-building.[17] This is a significant inflection for Prigozhin and the first time he has framed Wagner forces in Bakhmut as making effectively no gains. Prigozhin previously stated in October 2022 that Wagner forces operating in the Bakhmut area advance 100–200 meters a day.[18] The Wagner Group conducted information operations to assert that Wagner Group forces exclusively made gains in Bakhmut without the assistance of other Russian elements in December.[19]
Prigozhin is likely setting information conditions to blame Wagner Group's failure to take Bakhmut on the Russian Ministry of Defense or the Russian industrial base. Wagner Group soldiers told Prigozhin that they were unable to break through Ukrainian lines in Bakhmut due to insufficient armored vehicles, ammunition, and 100mm shell supplies during a likely scripted segment in the clip. This statement seeks to absolve the Wagner Group and Prigozhin of personal responsibility by attributing their failure to capture Bakhmut to the larger Russian resource allocation problems that Russian and Ukrainian sources have been increasingly discussing since late December.[20]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-january-3-2023
En alternativ tolkning; Ryssarna konkurrerar internt om resurser. Prigozhin vill ha mer - på bekostnad av ryska armén.
Liksom Zelensky är det Prighozins jobb att alltid gnälla om att de har för lite.
Men en interview som denna avlivar ju det pro-ryska narrativet om att Bakhmut bara är en fälla, designad för maximal utnötning. Istället tyder det på att ryssarna inte kommer framåt utan att höja förlustnivåerna till högre nivåer.
