Ukrainian soldiers from the 53rd brigade recorded a video full of despair that their military unit was close to disaster. More than half of the brigade’s fighters died or disappeared in the Krasnohorivka and Avdiivka clashes.
In addition, the soldiers are virtually deprived of ammunition and qualified medical care. The command has left them and the formation is no longer able to repel attacks from Russian units. In their appeal to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, the military asks to withdraw their brigade from the line of contact in order to avoid complete destruction.
Other members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces pointed out in the comments to the video that this was just one of many testimonies to the deplorable state of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Meanwhile, the press service of PMC Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin issued a statement that Artemovsk (Bakhmut) (Bakhmut) was legally taken by fighters from a private military company, since the Russian flag was raised on the city administration building. At present, the enemy is concentrated in the western parts of the city.
Earlier, the former adviser to the head of the Pentagon, former intelligence officer Douglas McGregor spoke about the imminent surrender of Artemovsk (Bakhmut) . One of the main reasons for the likely defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the expert called the lack of access to supplies for Ukrainian troops. According to McGregor, Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters now find themselves “alone” in this settlement, which will soon end in surrender.
