Russian Generals Forced To Back Wagner Group Over ‘Internal Power Play’ For Bakhmut

Russian Generals have been forced to back the Wagner Group over an ‘internal power play’ for Bakhmut.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Wagner Group mercenary fighters have stubbornly fought to capture Soledar and Bakhmut for months with little success, refusing to move troops despite the two cities being of little “strategic value” to the Kremlin.

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Russia’s costly and counterproductive attempts to capture the small eastern cities of Soledar and Bakhmut are based not on strategic gain but a symbolic “internal power play” between Russian commanders vying for Vladimir Putin’s attention, a military analyst has claimed.

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Professor Michael Clarke, a prominent commentator on the developing situation in Ukraine, told journalists that the mercenary outfit of Russian fighters known as the Wagner Group is “running across the strategy” of the Russian Armed Forces by focusing so stubbornly on the cities in Donetsk, forcing the top war generals to divert artillery to this “strategic blind alley” at the expense of soldiers elsewhere on the front line.

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