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32. What Next in Bakhmut?

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Is It a Pyrrhic Victory?

The capture of the city would be in their view a Pyrrhic victory. It has as we know open up fishes between Wagner and the regular Russian forces. There was no doubt in their view that actually Prigogen's demand for more ammunition was actually genuine. They reckon that tens of millions, Patrick, had already been fired and that as a result the Russian army lacked both ammunition and trained soldiers. The Russians are getting so desperate they're now bolting bits of ships that are armaments from ships onto armored personnel carriers. All sounds very desperate to me.

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