Wagner chief openly blasts Russia’s official military leadership

The private military company run by Russian Oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin is suffering major losses as intense fighting continues for the city of Bakhmut in Eastern Ukraine, according to the US government. CNN's senior national security correspondent Alex Marquardt reports.

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  1. Thank you Americans for helping Ukraine!! Please send fighter planes before 24!! God bless us all- slava Ukraini!!! ✌🏽

    1. @J&B beiser No nobody will give you anymore money, world already bankruptcy from non stop ukraine war, world tied already from it. soon usa will stay without social security protection because of ukraine non stop asking for billions of $$$. need end already this war and not supply with weapons.

  2. Ukrainian pilots train on F-16s so the hardest part is already done, they just need the jets and type training.

    1. @Gregg Mackie The US tax payer is presently paying for the F-16 USAF decommissioning and cold storage programme that is costing over $300 Million per year just for the F-16s, I think sending some to Ukraine would save some money. Other countries are sending aircraft which are a generation newer than the F-16 so its not as if sending F-16s is sending their best.

  3. How do you fight a combined arms war without adequate air support? It seems weird to train forces in combined arms, when one branch of arms is antiquated.

    1. Antiquated? Of whom do you speak? Neither Russia nor Ukraine have an “antiquated” air force. What may be “antiquated” is the command and control structures of the Russian military, which is rigidly centralised. The Ukraine Armed Forces on the other hand, prior to last year’s invasion, has had 8 years of NATO tutoring to ween it off its Soviet command and control doctrine and learn a more decentralised form of combined arms command and control (giving field commanders the freedom to exercise initiative within the overall battle plan).

      The Ukraine Air Force at the start of last years invasion had fewer than 100 combat aircraft of which less than 70 were comprised of MiG-29’s and SU-27’s.
      Russia had more than 1’100 combat aircraft.

    2. Air support is impossible on modern war because of high effective antiaircruft defence. Planes becomes the past, future is for drones.

    3. Combined arms refers to infantry, armor, artillery, and air or sea support.

      Sea doesn’t apply and the air is very restricted for both sides because of intense anti aircraft coverage.

      However, infantry, armor, and artillery (all ground forces) is still “combined arms” because they do different things in support of each other.

    4. In order to avoid Chinese and North Korean intervention. Politics wins wars as much as weapons do. And sometimes the best politics can allow for is a stalemate.

  4. Ukraine fought war in two front. Externally against Russia, and Internally against Corruption. Ukraine can not win external fight if they are lost internally. Fortunately, President Zelenskyy leadership is clear and tough to both front. He is the man who lead Ukraine against the invaders, and will be the man who changed Ukrainian culture for clean government. Salute!.

    1. @The Lastperfectman The point is that the casualties are not one sided. Thousands of Ukrainians have perished already. Soooo i’m guessing because Ukraine is defending itself it magically doesn’t have any casualties? Hahaha.

      According to CNN and “Ukrainian officials” Russia loses 100K soldiers daily LMAO.

      To be completely honest the way CNN speaks of the Russian army you would think that by this point the Ukrainians should already be invading Russia and going after Putin directly haha.

      CNN makes Ukrainian soldiers seem like video game characters with a no death ‘”cheat code”.

      I don’t think CNN has ever mentioned Ukraine’s losses. Only the Russian die no one else.

      Meanwhile we are well into 2023 and Ukraine is begging more than ever for supplies and weapons. People need to start asking themselves. “Wait a min…If the Ukrainians are such good soldiers and are beating the crap out of the Russians with ease why does Russia still hold 20% of Ukraine’s territory? Why do they continue to beg for supplies? What’s going on here?”

      That’s the question that the American public needs to start asking.

      If the Ukrainian army is as godly as CNN makes it out to be why is Russia still pounding their cities with air strikes? Why do they still hold a massive chunk of their land? Why haven’t they drove them away already?

      Seems kinda weird for a “godly” army to be begging everyday and constantly taking heavy losses, while running out of supplies quickly…

  5. 6:50 turn into a “very expensive war”….?
    Isn’t this already a very expensive war? Both in munitions, equipment, financially, and most importantly in human lives?
    I understand he wasn’t trying to say it hasn’t been an expensive war yet…. But i think it’s important to recognize the insane cost:toll this war has already had on both sides. There’s no realistic way to end this conflict in the near future so the losses will continue and they so ramp back up to spring/summer offensive losses.
    I just feel he could’ve been a little more accurate with his wording because the way he said it made it sound as if this wasn’t already an incomprehensibly expensive war.

  6. Oh wowie , I saw Ukraine s map, that’s dang awesome .. glory to Ukraine and their people and army..l may god protect ya all and bless your president … he’s so awesome… with love from northwest usa !! 🤟🤟🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸

  7. In Wagner group come most of all that prisoners who had got huge time in prison 15 – 25 years for murdering, banditism and so on because others don`t want to have a high risk. Some days before near Bachmut was killed one prisoner who had got 25 years for several police officers killing in Vladivostok town, he was the member of gang group. But some of them are lucky. One murderer surname Tjutin who took 19 years for four people killing survived in battle, his six month contract with Wagner was over, he became free and fly in Turkey to have a rest on seaside. Our russian media told this story. But lucky are very few of them.

    1. No wonder everyone was being raped they are all convicts that’s like us emptying our prisons and throwing them them in Russias back yard imagine the carnage

  8. It’s genocide against Ukrainians without a doubt however, it also seems like Putler is committing genocide against his own people. His total disregard for human life regardless of nationality is totally mind blowing.

    1. Oh man I think it’ll be a radiation poisoning or something more public. ( Since Wagner chief likes to showoff)

    2. He could go the way of Ernst Rohm if Putin starts to see him as a threat. I’m not sure he’s had enough success for that, though. Putin is happy with infighting between his minions as long as none of them rise too high.

  9. He lost thousands of men trying to take a secondary city for two months already and failed to do so, against numericaly inferior defenders, a military genious that guy he isn’t.

    1. 😆 you urkrain lover make me laugh keep watching CNN and believe that urkrain is winning this war ,russia have ran out of missile and western tanks will charge anything

    2. @Slightly Homeless Lol because Germany can host whoever they want in their country. Same like how Russia is in Belarus, and so many other eastern former ussr nations. You sound jealous though, need a hug? 😂

  10. They’ve got to do something about the windows in Russia. Within the last week a woman member of the Defense Ministry died when she fell out of a window.

    Or at least establish a specialized cemetery for only those who fall out of windows.

    1. @Frank T Zelensky and his SBU agents (friends fron Kvartal 49 Studio where he was a clown , comedian and a dance)seem to disappear bodies of their opponents.

  11. After watching few US talks I’ve learnt that sending the different arms Ukraine needs so much takes time..I wonder why soldiers trained on arms are not sent back in Ukraine with the arms they’re trained on after finishing the training and the training bases are not resuplied with different arms?Slava Ukraine🇺🇦

    1. Could be they’re holding the trained troops and the arms or armour they’ve been trained on in reserve for a massive Ukranian counter offensive. Similar concept to D day in world war 2

  12. They need planes they can fly now , whatever that looks like . All these military minds must be able to figure this out quickly .

  13. Mark my words: The Wagner chief will stage a coup. Whether or not he is successful, it may only accelerate Russia’s defeat. Nothing much can be done now to avoid that defeat. So the question now is, what will Russia be after this war? What do the people want Russia to be?

    1. @Ersedu  …but they’re not pushing russia off their land. That’s my point. Russia has been steadily gaining ground for months and ukraine is in ruins

    2. @Shane Alan not true they are pushing them back they took back massive amounts of land last year and will do so again this spring

      They have also kept the Russians trapped at bakhmut grinding the Russians down

    3. @Ersedu  and ironically enough it’s ukraine and the western allies running out of weapons and ammo as it’s pretty well documented. Where do you get your information from?

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