Russia’s top mercenary chief is launching a new recruitment drive, continuing a public dispute with regular defense officials following battlefield losses that could sap the next Russian offensive.
“Recruitment centers for PMC Wagner have opened in 42 Russian cities,” Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin posted on social media."Despite the colossal resistance of the Ukrainian armed forces, we will move forward.”
“We, absolutely untrained, were forced to assault villages ... without reconnaissance, without communications, without scouting,” one Russian conscript officer said this week, according to the War Translated project, in a video published to explain why he and his few remaining men refuse to continue to fight under so-called separatist militia commanders. “Generally speaking, it’s some complete bullshit.
“We understand that after Bakhmut they could go further ... it would be open road for the Russians after Bakhmut to other towns in Ukraine, in the Donetsk direction,” Zelensky told CNN on Tuesday. “Russia needs at least some victory — a small victory — even by ruining everything in Bakhmut, just killing every civilian there ... [to] mobilize their society in order to create this idea they’re such a powerful army.
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