The Institute for the Examine of the Conflict has launched its retrospective on the battle for Bakhmut. Euronews correspondent Sasha Vakulina breaks it down. The pinnacle of Russia's Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, introduced this week his mercenaries would start handing over their positions in Bakhmut to the Russian Ministry of Defence after claiming full management of …
The Institute for the Examine of the Conflict has launched its retrospective on the battle for Bakhmut. Euronews correspondent Sasha Vakulina breaks it down.
The pinnacle of Russia’s Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, introduced this week his mercenaries would start handing over their positions in Bakhmut to the Russian Ministry of Defence after claiming full management of the embattled metropolis.
The ISW has described the battle as a “year-long drive” that started as a part of a “theoretically wise however overly-ambitious operational effort however ended as a purely symbolic gesture that price tens of 1000’s of Russian casualties”.
The suppose tank reported that the objective to grab Bakhmut was initially meant to facilitate Russian offensives to encircle massive Ukrainian forces within the east and particularly to take the big and fortified cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk from a number of instructions.
It emphasised that Bakhmut was not a major Russian goal in the course of the early phases of the battle.
Watch Euronews correspondent Sasha Vakulina’s report within the video above.
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