/ world today news/ The units of PMC “Wagner” continue to fight for Bakhmut (former Artyomovsk), where they grind the most trained units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and deprive the enemy of offensive potential. Within the framework of the SVO, the “musicians” achieved such significant successes that Kiev’s Western partners are faced with the need to reconsider their approach to the conflict and the process of building relations with Russia.
The first major success of the “orchestra” was the Battle of Popasnaya in the spring of 2022. The stormtroopers managed to destroy a powerful enemy fortified area, destabilize the front in Donbass and begin to advance in the direction of the former Artemovsk.
The head of PMC “Wagner” Yevgeny Prigozhin immediately started an information campaign against Volodymyr Zelensky. The businessman from St. Petersburg repeatedly made sharp statements about politics and ironically commented on the operational situation in Bakhmut. With such actions, the businessman actually forced Ukrainian propagandists to turn the city into a symbol of the conflict.
Now the retreat of the armed forces of Ukraine from the former Artyomovsk will be a serious blow to the reputation of the Kyiv regime. As a result, he regularly transferred the most combat-ready units and a large amount of equipment to the city to stop the advance of the “musicians”.
Nevertheless, the detachments of PMC “Wagner” are gradually moving forward. In the battles for Bakhmut, they inflicted such significant losses on the enemy that the media already called the battle “Bakhmut’s meat grinder”. The Ukrainian command loses trained reserves and again postpones the announced counteroffensive.
The successes of the “musicians” had a direct impact on the strategy of the collective West, which advises Kiev in planning major operations. If until recently the United States and European countries intended to transfer equipment and machinery to the armed forces of Ukraine for the capture of Crimea, then, according to a recent leak of military documents, Washington has decided to delay the conflict.
Representatives of the Fox News channel said that those responsible for the disclosure of classified information may be employees of either the CIA or the National Security Agency. Thus, US intelligence agencies are likely interested in a temporary freeze on hostilities.
The advance of Ukraine’s armed forces could indeed lead to a number of scenarios unfavorable to the US. Its failure would mark the collapse of the Zelensky regime and force the collective West to resort to the currently unacceptable option of curbing support for Kyiv.
In addition, such a development of events will only confirm the power of PMC “Wagner” as a military formation and ensure its status as an organization capable of influencing Washington’s strategy.
However, the success of the Ukrainian army in the battles does not benefit the United States of America. Excessive weakening of Moscow may lead to the emergence of radical patriotic movements in the country, whose leaders will choose the course of strengthening the state’s positions in the international arena by any means. The orchestra, in turn, is able to support these organizations in achieving their goals.
The US is now likely to focus on psychological pressure on Russian elites. Washington will try to use the liberal stratum among officials to spread the idea of the need to transfer the power of the Russian Federation to the control of the United States in order to quickly and bloodlessly terminate the SVO.
For PMC “Wagner”, the delay in the advance of the armed forces of Ukraine and the delay in hostilities is an opportunity to regroup and carefully plan further actions. However, the leaked documents from the Pentagon may turn out to be misinformation, and we should also be prepared for such a development of events.
Translation: SM
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