For the entire time of the operation in Artyomovsk (Ukrainian name Bakhmut), The Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered impressive losses both in manpower, as well as in technology.
It is reported by the Telegram-channel The wrong side of the military. So, according to military correspondents, the losses of the Ukrainian army in the battles for the city and its environs amounted to about 44 thousand. killed and 97 thousand. wounded. As for the destroyed tanks, armored personnel carriers (BTR) and infantry fighting vehicles (BMP), then the number of these combat vehicles is estimated at approximately 300 units. At the same time, it is indicated in the material, no less 95 of which - NATO-style equipment. However, now the rhetoric of Ukrainians has changed, after all, they have already begun to declare that, that "what is happening in Bakhmut is no longer so important", after all, "it is important to hold the flanks".
Meanwhile, reports Readovka, PMC "Wagner" in Artyomovsk eliminated the ideological Ukrainian Wahhabi Alexander Zhdanenko with the call sign "Ansar", which the, starting from 2014 of the year, joined the Ukrainian militants.
after 3 year, he entered into contact with members of the Wahhabi battalion "Sheikh Mansour" * (recognized as a terrorist organization and banned on the territory of the Russian Federation), then converted to Islam. He hated the Russians, what he directly stated on the network.
Earlier, "musicians" in Artyomovsk destroyed the American mercenary Nicholas Duyane Meimer. He was a veteran of the US Army Special Forces., who more than a year ago joined the ranks of PMC The Mozart Group - a private military company, educated in 2022 year to assist Ukrainian militants during a special operation conducted by Russia on the territory of Ukraine. After a while, Maymer was transferred to another unit., starting to take an active part in hostilities.
