2023-05-09 18:14:00
The Battle of Bakhmout has become particularly symbolic in the war in Ukraine. Russians and Ukrainians have been clashing for nine months in this city in the east of the country. Extreme fighting, as evidenced by images filmed by each of the two camps. Be careful… some of them might offend the most sensitive.
We knew the dantesque battle of Bakhmout. The most violent front of the war, often compared to the terrible battle of Verdun during the First World War.
The striking images filmed by soldiers from both sides plunge us into the heart of the conflict.
On a sequence, a Ukrainian discovers that one of his comrades has been killed. “My God, and another one there. He died too. This is war. Rest in peace !“, can we hear.
Barely time to greet him, a grenade falls. The Russians launch the assault on the trench. “Those motherfuckers jumped into our trenches… Do you read me? They are in the trench“, he launches.
The fight is fierce. Several Russians are killed. But another attack comes from the other side.
Drones guide troops
Clashes are daily. Sometimes they are directed from a drone. The Ukrainian soldiers are in contact with operators who, from a distance, inform them of the actions and gestures of the Russian enemy. Sometimes, a few meters separate two enemies.
Wagner’s boss criticizes
In Bakhmout, every inch of land is defended. Every street. Every house. On the Russian side, the fighters are mainly men from the private Wagner militia.
Their boss is worried. Their ammunition is sorely lacking. Enough to cover 10 to 15% of needs. “On May 7, we were promised that we would be given the ammunition. On May 8 at 2am we received a combat order where it was that we would have everything we needed. Today is May 9, and yesterday we were given only 10% of what we asked for. We have simply been shamelessly deceived. We will not leave Bakhmout, we will insist a few more days, and then we will see“, says Yevgeny Prigozhin.
The losses are colossal. Evguéni Prigojine says he has a thousand corpses every day, which he sends back in coffins to Russia. For its part, kyiv gives no information on the Ukrainian dead.
After nine months of battle, no one wants to let go of Bakhmout, a ghost town that has become an open-air cemetery.
Our correspondent in Ukraine, Arnaud De Decker, gives news of the situation this Tuesday evening. At the time of the interrogation, he is in an apartment used by a Ukrainian brigade as a resting place 25 kilometers from Bakhmout.
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