Russia invading Ukraine - The battle in Bakhmut | Ipse by Context

Mark Milley

Inserted 1 year ago

“For about the last 20 to 21 days, the Russians have not made any progress whatsoever in and around Bakhmut.”

Reuters

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the US’s top military officer

29 Mar 2023 2 1

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 year ago

“In less than a week, starting from the 6th March, we managed to kill more than 1,100 enemy soldiers in the Bakhmut sector alone, Russia's irreversible loss.”

Reuters

President of Ukraine

12 Mar 2023 2 1

Yevgeny Prigozhin

Inserted 1 year ago

“The closer we are to the centre of the city, the harder the fighting ... The Ukrainians throw in endless reserves. But we are advancing and we will be advancing. Yesterday, we got 15 truckloads, today we got 12. And I think we will continue to receive them.”

Reuters

Founder of Russia’s Wagner Group, a private mercenary force

12 Mar 2023 3 1

Oleksandr Syrsky

Inserted 1 year ago

“The real heroes now are the defenders who are holding the eastern front on their shoulders, and inflicting the heaviest possible losses sparing neither themselves nor the enemy. It is necessary to buy time to build reserves and launch a counteroffensive, which is not far off.”

Aljazeera

Commander of Ukraine’s ground forces

11 Mar 2023 1 1

Mykhailo Podolyak

Inserted 1 year ago

“Russia has changed tactics. It has converged on Bakhmut with a large part of its trained military personnel, the remnants of its professional army, as well as the private companies. We, therefore, have two objectives: To reduce their capable personnel as much as possible and to fix them in a few key wearisome battles, to disrupt their offensive and concentrate our resources elsewhere for the spring counteroffensive. So, today Bakhmut is completely effective, even exceeding its key tasks.”

Aljazeera

Advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

10 Mar 2023 3 2

Yevgeny Prigozhin

Inserted 1 year ago

“In spite of the colossal resistance of the Ukrainian armed forces, we will go forward. Despite the sticks in the wheels that are thrown at us at every step, we will overcome this together.”

Aljazeera

Founder of Russia’s Wagner Group, a private mercenary force

10 Mar 2023 2 1

Lloyd Austin

Inserted 1 year ago

“I think it is more of a symbolic value than it is strategic and operational value. The fall of Bakhmut won't necessarily mean that the Russians have changed the tide of this fight.”

Aljazeera

US Secretary of Defense

06 Mar 2023 2 1

Nikolay Mitrokhin

Inserted 1 year ago

“The city remains important as a centre of Ukrainian forces' secondary line of defence in Donbas. But after the loss of Soledar and a virtual surrounding of Bakhmut from three-and-a-half sides out of four, its significance decreased significantly. So, its loss will reflect on the war insignificantly.”

Aljazeera

Research Fellow at Bremen University

06 Mar 2023 3 1

Yevgeny Prigozhin

Inserted 1 year ago

“For now, we are trying to figure out the reason: is it just ordinary bureaucracy or a betrayal. If Wagner retreats from Bakhmut now, the whole front will collapse. The situation will not be sweet for all military formations protecting Russian interests.”

Aljazeera

Founder of Russia’s Wagner Group, a private mercenary force

05 Mar 2023 3 1

Volodymyr Nazarenko

Inserted 1 year ago

“They take no account of their losses in trying to take the city by assault. The task of our forces in Bakhmut is to inflict as many losses on the enemy as possible. Every metre of Ukrainian land costs hundreds of lives to the enemy. We need as much ammunition as possible. There are many more Russians here than we have ammunition to destroy them.”

Reuters

Deputy commander in the National Guard of Ukraine

03 Mar 2023 2 1

Yevgeny Prigozhin

Inserted 1 year ago

“Units of the private military company Wagner have practically surrounded Bakhmut. Only one route (out) is left. The pincers are closing.”

Reuters

Founder of Russia’s Wagner Group, a private mercenary force

03 Mar 2023 3 1

Serhiy Rakhmanin

Inserted 1 year ago

“I believe that sooner or later, we will probably have to leave Bakhmut. There is no sense in holding it at any cost. But for the moment, Bakhmut will be defended with several aims: firstly, to inflict as many Russian losses as possible and make Russia use its ammunition and resources. Lines of defence should not be allowed to collapse. There are two ways to approach this - an organised retreat or simple flight, and we cannot allow flight to take place under any circumstances.”

Aljazeera

Ukrainian member of parliament

01 Mar 2023 2 1

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 year ago

“The enemy is constantly destroying everything that can be used to protect our positions for fortification and defence. Our soldiers defending the area around Bakhmut are true heroes.”

Aljazeera

President of Ukraine

27 Feb 2023 1 1

John Kirby

Inserted 1 year ago

“The mercenary group [Wagner] had made incremental gains in and around Bakhmut over the last few days but those advances had taken many months to achieve and came at a devastating cost that is not sustainable. It is possible that they may end up being successful in Bakhmut but it will prove of no real worth to them because it is of no real strategic value.”

Aljazeera

Pentagon spokesman

17 Feb 2023 2 1

Yevgeny Prigozhin

Inserted 1 year ago

“To take Bakhmut you have to cut all supply routes. It's a significant task. Progress is not going as fast as we would like. Bakhmut would have been taken before the New Year, if not for our monstrous military bureaucracy.”

Aljazeera

Founder of Russia’s Wagner Group, a private mercenary force

16 Feb 2023 3 2

Pavlo Kyrylenko

Inserted 1 year ago

“There is not a single square metre in Bakhmut that is safe or that is not in range of enemy fire or drones.”

Reuters

Donetsk regional Governor

13 Feb 2023 1 1

Yevgeny Prigozhin

Inserted 1 year ago

“Bakhmut is needed so our troops can operate comfortably. Why is it called the meat grinder? Because the Ukrainian army is sending more and more and more units. It is probably too early to say that we are close. There are many roads out and fewer roads in. Ukrainian troops are well trained … and like any large city, it is impossible to capture it from head-on. We are managing very well. First, we have to quietly take Artyomovsk [Soviet-era name of Bakhmut] and then we can say loud and clear that we have taken it.”

Aljazeera

Founder of Russia’s Wagner Group, a private mercenary force

10 Feb 2023 5 2

Serhiy Cherevaty

Inserted 1 year ago

“Russian troops could not cut off the road which is used for supplying the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The Ukrainian army in Bakhmut is supplied with everything necessary.”

Aljazeera

Spokesman for Ukraine’s eastern forces

31 Jan 2023 5 3

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Russia invading Ukraine - The battle in Bakhmut

“For about the last 20 to 21 days, the Russians have not made any progress whatsoever in and around Bakhmut.”

“In less than a week, starting from the 6th March, we managed to kill more than 1,100 enemy soldiers in the Bakhmut sector alone, Russia's irreversible loss.”

“The closer we are to the centre of the city, the harder the fighting ... The Ukrainians throw in endless reserves. But we are advancing and we will be advancing. Yesterday, we got 15 truckloads, today we got 12. And I think we will continue to receive them.”

“The real heroes now are the defenders who are holding the eastern front on their shoulders, and inflicting the heaviest possible losses sparing neither themselves nor the enemy. It is necessary to buy time to build reserves and launch a counteroffensive, which is not far off.”

“In spite of the colossal resistance of the Ukrainian armed forces, we will go forward. Despite the sticks in the wheels that are thrown at us at every step, we will overcome this together.”

“I think it is more of a symbolic value than it is strategic and operational value. The fall of Bakhmut won't necessarily mean that the Russians have changed the tide of this fight.”

“For now, we are trying to figure out the reason: is it just ordinary bureaucracy or a betrayal. If Wagner retreats from Bakhmut now, the whole front will collapse. The situation will not be sweet for all military formations protecting Russian interests.”

“Units of the private military company Wagner have practically surrounded Bakhmut. Only one route (out) is left. The pincers are closing.”

“The enemy is constantly destroying everything that can be used to protect our positions for fortification and defence. Our soldiers defending the area around Bakhmut are true heroes.”

“To take Bakhmut you have to cut all supply routes. It's a significant task. Progress is not going as fast as we would like. Bakhmut would have been taken before the New Year, if not for our monstrous military bureaucracy.”

“There is not a single square metre in Bakhmut that is safe or that is not in range of enemy fire or drones.”

“Russian troops could not cut off the road which is used for supplying the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The Ukrainian army in Bakhmut is supplied with everything necessary.”

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