US Colonel R.Black: the battle is lost for the Ukrainians - Their losses in Bakhmut are overwhelming & they haven't seen anything yet - VIDEOS

warnews247.gr | "The losses of the Ukrainian Army cannot be made up for" | "The battle for the Ukrainians has been lost and the war has already been decided," retired US Army Special Forces and Marines Colonel Richard Black pointed out in a double intervention. ● As he pointed out during a conference of the Schiller Institute, the battle in Artyomovsk is catastrophic for the Armed Forces of Ukraine without taking into account the fourfold increase in the troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation by the beginning of 2023. 💬 "Ukrainian troops are being thrown into a death trap in Bakhmut by the thousands and it seems that they have no solution. Russia wins in Bakhmut, Ukraine loses and this shows that this is becoming a major strategic development of the war," the colonel said. Black noted that the number of dead Ukrainian soldiers is staggering and the country's population will not allow the losses in manpower to be made up for. The conflict is lost, the colonel concluded. ● Elsewhere the US Colonel states: 💬 "I would simply say to the Ukrainians 'be careful because if you think things have been bad up to this point, you're going to see something that is far beyond anything you've imagined up to this point." ● They are losing 500 to 700 soldiers a day! Ukraine is losing more men a day in Bakhmut (alone) than the United States lost in a month during the Vietnam War. And Ukraine has a smaller population than the United States!" (DeepL.com)

warnews247.gr | VIDEOS |Crash of the Ukrainian elite forces in Bakhmut: The Russians finished off the OPFOR Battalion and the 93rd Brigade | All available strategic reserves are being transferred by the Ukrainian military command to Bakhmut after the defeat of the OPFOR elite forces and the withdrawal of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade. ● The Russians are dangerously tightening the noose around the Ukrainian Army: Outside the town of Bakhmut, fierce fighting is taking place in Prigodno, Opytne and Kleeshevka. The outcome of the battles in these three areas will allow the Russian Army to launch a simultaneous attack from 3 directions and cut off the supply route of the Ukrainian forces from the west as well. ● Inside the city, fierce urban fighting is taking place on the eastern side with the Russian Army trying to penetrate deeper into the residential area next to the Industrial Zone while the Ukrainians try to push them back. ● Sources in the Wagner forces report that there is a further advance of their forces along Fedor Maksimenko Street towards the southern part of Artemovsk (Bahmut ). The Wagnerites have taken control of two city blocks near petrol stations in the east of the city. In this context, the Ukrainians are reinforcing their forces by transferring two more brigades, the 4th from Kiev and the 46th from Poltava. Both are part of Kiev's strategic reserves. ● At the same time, the Ukrainian command is removing the 93rd brigade, which has almost ceased to exist. What is left of this formation is transferred to the permanent deployment point in the village of Cherkasy in the Dnipropetrovsk region. The 93rd Brigade "absorbed" all the Russian artillery fire. ● The videos of the fighting in Bakhmut are shocking. Ukrainian forces are trying to escape through a hell of fire with Russian shells bursting around them. Another Ukrainian group has been trapped inside a building and are fighting to the end. ● The 214th OPFOR battalion was created with the support of NATO. The training of the soldiers of this unit was carried out by foreign military personnel. The preparation was carried out according to the standards of the North Atlantic Alliance armies. The most experienced and combat-ready soldiers of the Ukrainian army joined the battalion. The Ukrainian leadership was forced to throw these elite forces into battle after the colossal losses of other units. According to various estimates, the Ukrainian Army is losing one battalion a day. "It is already known that many soldiers of the 214 OPFOR battalion were captured. Some of them were forced to surrender, but there are also those who preferred life in Russian captivity to death in the trenches. ● The 214 OPFOR battalion is on the verge of total annihilation. At best, its soldiers will be captured. But there is a very high probability that they will meet a tragic death in Bakhmut's 'meat machine'," Russian military sources say. (Trans.: www.DeepL.com/)