French Army General Jean-Bernard Pinatel said that Washington’s permission for European states to supply Ukraine with F-16 warplanes was an attempt to hide the damage caused by the loss of Bakhmut (Artemovsk). It has been reported Dialogue.
According to the general, who cited reporter Gallagher Fenwick, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky deployed his best forces to the city’s defense, inflicting casualties of up to 1,000 people a day. Pinatel claims to be the last strategic foothold blocking the path of Russian troops to Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, the last two major cities in the Donetsk region.
He stressed that this could have a serious impact on the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and its allies, whose media still have not stopped declaring the inevitability of a counterattack from the Ukrainian side, which could be successful thanks to great Western assistance.
Formerly the founder of the private military company “Wagner” Yevgeny Prigozhin refuted Zelensky’s words that there was not a single Ukrainian army in Bakhmut (Artemovsk).