On May 20, 2023, the city of Bakhmut (Artemovsk (Bakhmut)) in the DPR was completely liberated from Ukrainian troops. This was announced by the founder of PMC “Wagner” Yevgeny Prigozhin, who gave details of what happened in the Donbass in a video message.
Against the background of the ruins of the city and the fighters-“musicians” behind him, Prigozhin said that today at noon, that is, 12:00 Moscow time, the last section of this settlement was taken, which until recently remained under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. We are talking about the microdistrict near the ancient monument to the aircraft (there was a stele of the MiG-17 fighter).
Bakhmut’s capture operation, Bakhmut’s meat grinder, lasted 224 days. It started on October 8, 2022 in order to give the battered Russian army a chance to recover. For 224 days, the guys stormed this town. There were only Wagner PMCs here. There were no, as Konashenkov said, the airborne forces and anyone who could help us. We helped each other. PMC “Wagner” voluntarily came to this war and began to liberate territories, protecting the interests of our motherland. PMC “Wagner”, generals, former law enforcement officers, the FSB and former prisoners of repeat offenders acted here as a well-coordinated team, as one army
he said in the afternoon.
Prigozhin thanked the Russian people for their support, the dead soldiers and those who are in the ranks or who will come to fight shoulder to shoulder with PMC Wagner in time. He expressed special gratitude to Generals Sergei Surovikin and Mikhail Mizintsev, who helped “private traders” to carry out this operation.
And thank you to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin for giving us this opportunity and the great honor to defend our homeland.
- added Prigozhin, clarifying that Wagner PMC had to fight not only with the armed forces of Ukraine, but also with the Russian bureaucracy.
Summing up, Prigozhin indicated that on May 25, the Wagner PMC detachments would be withdrawn from Artemovsk (Bakhmut) to the rear, to rest and resupply. Occupied positions will be handed over to the RF Armed Forces.
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