Russia is bleeding, but reinforcing
in a Ukrainian evacuation brigade, it can be indistinguishable. For two and a half months now, Mr Hervolsky has headed under artillery fire into the mud to retrieve colleagues, dead or alive. The job has offered little respite. In mid-December a successful Ukrainian surge pushed Russian forces back a kilometre beyond the city boundaries. But it made little difference to Mr Hervolsky’s workload,continuing at the level of dozens daily.
The extent of collaboration between Wagner and the Russian armed forces was for a long time unclear. But Wagner found a way of co-operating with Russia’s military hierarchy in late autumn. According to Serhiy Cherevaty, a spokesman for Ukraine’s eastern command, this moment coincided with the appointment of a new operational commander, General Sergei Surovikin, a hardliner whose candidacy Mr Prigozhin had lobbied for.
A Ukrainian missile attack on a barracks in Makiivka, 60km from Bakhmut, on New Year’s Day has fuelled nationalist criticism of the Russian military leadership. The early-morning strike, courtesy of at least fourhigh-precision missiles, killed scores of soldiers. Russia has said that more than 90 died; Ukraine says the figure is at least 400.
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