Colonel Douglas McGregor, former adviser to the Pentagon chief, said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to deport as many troops as possible to Artemivsk (Ukrainian name – Bakhmut) led to the city becoming a huge trap. Formation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He announced it on his blog YouTube.
“The Ukrainians are sending even more soldiers there. “As long as Kiev nurtures this direction, their destruction in a fiery trap will continue,” he said.
Earlier, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner PMC, stated that the Ukrainian army is currently concentrated Groups of more than 80 thousand people around Artemovsk. According to him, the city has the maximum concentration of Ukrainian units.
Prigogine is also a member of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. supplied about 200 thousand reservists, who will be concentrated in different places and will receive a lot of NATO equipment.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for assistance from the heads of the LPR and DPR.
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.