Live Update Bakhmut - Ramstein (*Bakhmut Has Fallen to the Russia)
Battle of Somme (World War I) reduplicate in 21st Century, to be Battle of Bakhmut (August 1st, 2022 - still continued)
Reality Spoken: Bakhmut / Артёмовск / Бахмýт / Artyomovsk / Artemivsk / Артемівськ (Unfortunately) Goes to Russia. A Merciless, human meat grinder by Russia already happens to rebuttal after Russia loss in 11 months. Today (Jan 20th, 2023) in Day - 331 of war. Putin relief, for now, amid (U.S. report) “[Russia already loss] 100,00 soldiers.”
If Spiegel says something, reporting something, we must admit. From the Snowden - National Security Agency (NSA) fiasco 10 years ago (2013) until the Bucha massacre in March-April 2022.
Now, Spiegel reports that Germany’s intelligence service BND has told lawmakers in a secret meeting that Ukraine’s army is losing a three-digits number of soldiers every day in Bakhmut, whose capture by Russian forces would compromise Ukraine’s main defence line. ”Three digits” dying a day is too high if compared (Ukraine based data) too low number acclaimed by Ukraine army every day.
Every 10 am or 11 am or 1 pm Kyiv time (3 am / 4 am / 6 am in Washington DC) since the war started Feb 24, 2022, the Ukraine army released comparison data about “Russia loss” and “Ukraine loss”.
For example, Ukraine claimed that 770 Russian soldiers had been killed in the last 24 hours, reported Jan 20th 2023. No one should question Spiegel - German BND, though. But if Spiegel - German BND true about “three digits Ukraine soldiers had been killed every day, and only in Bakhmut”, Ukraine & the West / NATO since February 24th 2022 facing too low under-reporting data about Ukraine loss, and (should) this is very serious concerned in Ramstein meeting.
If in Bakhmut, only 41 square km, based on the German BND, Ukraine lost “three digits” soldiers, imagine what exactly number Ukraine soldiers had been killed every day in the entire Ukraine (603,700 square km).
Battle of Bakhmut started August 1st, 2022. Russian forces launched massive ground attacks on settlements south and southeast of Bakhmut. Both the Russian Ministry of Defense and pro-Russian Telegram pages claimed that the battle of Bakhmut had begun. But name of “Bakhmut” to be popular because this city mentioned between (tweet-conversation) Medvedev and Elon Musk in October 21st, 2022.
The BND warned that the capture of Bakhmut by Russian forces would have significant consequences, as it would allow Russia to make further advances. It also said the Russian army was using its own soldiers like cannon fodder in Bakhmut, Spiegel added. Russian proxy forces in eastern Ukraine said on Friday that Russian forces had taken control of Klishchiivka, a small settlement south of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine. On August 1st, 2022, Russian forces launched massive ground attacks on settlements south and southeast of Bakhmut for the first time.
Putin has turned Bakhmut into a human meat grinder. It also means the US assessment is wrong. Tonight in Ramstein Air Base, Rhineland - Palatinate, Germany, U.S. General Mark Alexander Milley & Secretary of Defense Lloyd James Austin III insist that Russia's invasion of Ukraine "is turning into an absolute catastrophe for Russia." Today not only Day - 331 Russia - Ukraine war. Today (Jan 20th, 2023) is also 2 years of the Joseph Robinette “Joe” Biden Jr - Kamala Devi Harris administration.
Pallets loaded with every energy drink brand and flavor imaginable are stacked inside the only two working gas stations in Kostyantynivka, in Donetsk province, eastern Ukraine. A score of soldiers are lined up at the checkout counter with bags of energy drinks and cartons of cigarettes. They’re still in combat gear, with rifles slung over their shoulders and helmets in one hand. The Ukrainian troops refuel their vehicles and head back to the Bakhmut front, seven miles (11 kilometers) away. But again, based Spiegel report, Bakhmut already captured by Russia. According to open-source intelligence (OSINT) reports and Russian news agency TASS, Wagner mercenaries took Krasna Hora after Ukraine’s 17th Armored Brigade retreated.
But implicitly, still minutes ago, General Milley say that "from a military standpoint, for this year, it would be very very difficult to militarily eject the Russian forces from every inch from Russian-occupied Ukraine, but that doesn't mean it won't happen." An ambiguous statement by General Milley may prove itself about the Spiegel report that Bakhmut already falls to Russia, unfortunately.
"Massive amounts of casualties, lots of other damage to the Russian military"The Bakhmut (has fallen) parallel amid NATO meeting with Ukraine in Ramstein. Apparently, there's no positive decision about providing Ukraine with Leopard tanks, according to German defense minister Boris Pistorius. At the same time, he says that Germany will be (potentially) ready to deliver these tanks in the future if there's a unanimous decision. Pistorius instructed German army to “review” how many and which Leopards it could send, to be able “to act quickly” once decision comes (could take a week or two). Sec Lloyd James Austin III minutes ago also reconfirmed about the debate of tanks between the U.S. and Germany. Sec Austin says there's no linkage between providing [US] M1's & providing [German] Leopards.
The Dutch Cabinet will look into supplying F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine if the Kyiv asks for it. During a parliamentary debate on Thursday (Jan 19th), Minister Wopke Bastiaan Hoekstra of Foreign Affairs said the Cabinet would look at such a request with an “open mind.” Regular nuclear decision-making drills are a good idea - is there a reason why that's not the case in the wake of the Russia - Ukraine war (& potential war between China - Taiwan)?
On the Russian side, there is no need for a new mobilization right now because of the 320,000 people drafted in the 1st wave, half are still in training. "The human resource gained from the last mobilization has not yet been exhausted" the source says.
5-6 Days ago, anonymous visit to Ukraine, meet Zelensky, CIA Director William Joseph Burns says some point assistance would be harder to come by. Burns admits that the debt ceiling of US$ 31 Trillion, and fiasco between Biden and the House (GOP, 55th Speaker Kevin Owen McCarthy make it harder for military assistance to Ukraine. October 2022, McCarthy shouted that no more blank cheque would be made to Ukraine if the GOP win in the Midterm Election (and the GOP really won, unfortunately). But Senator (GOP Lindsay Graham in Kyiv. Democrat (not GOP) won Senate majority.
