The head of the Russian private army Wagner has said his fighters have completed the capture of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, but Kyiv immediately rejected the claim and said fighting was still going on.
Yevgeny Prigozhin made the claim in a video on Saturday in which he appeared in combat fatigues in front of a line of fighters holding Russian flags and Wagner banners.
“Today, at 12 noon, Bakhmut was completely taken,” Prigozhin said. “We completely took the whole city, from house to house.
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How could this happen? I thought most Russians were dead and the ones still alive were mesmerized by the asphalt roads they were seeing for the first time.
Edit: Am I imagining that Anne Applebaum actually wrote that many Russian soldiers were seeing asphalt roads for the first time and were enraged that they didn't have nice things like that home?
everyone thought wagner ate shit but apparently it was all japes and fog of war, honestly i don't know anymore. there's no point in keeping up with the war because the readily available information is literally all propaganda from either side. this new breakthrough seems reliable because ukraine press is in full damage control tho
"Great part of the information obtained in War is contradictory, a still greater part is false, and by far the greatest part is of a doubtful character."
it was either that or streetlights
I've heard it about toilets as well
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I remember that too but couldn't tell you who said it
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I wonder how american minds explode when they visit metro stations in other countries.
I mentioned to my brother that Uzbekistan has amazing Soviet era subway stations and he said "That's what you can do when you have a totalitarian government."
Pretty sure she said that, or else i imagined it too
Least deranged Atlantic writer.
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What's funny is how easy this is to debunk. Go to Google Maps, pick any podunk-ass village in Russia, open photos, and you'll see asphalt roads.
What's sad is how many people will believe it anyway.
Some guy made a twitter thread cataloging like every single village he could find with mud and dirt roads to pass off as indicative of every village outside major metropolitan cities. Somehow he missed the memo where dirt roads are a characterization of rural America and country singers are very proud to tell you all about driving down them in their trucks. That only happens in backward and barbaric asiatic countries
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:rosa-salute:
Is Applebaum's entire career just slandering Russia?
No she also wrote a bunch of Bush apologia in favor of the Iraq War, I think she's more famous for that.