Russia’s war hawks say attrition has backfired in Ukraine: ‘We have no rounds’

Russia A ammunition shortage extends beyond the Wagner Group According to Russian complaints, mercenary troops are concerned about the aforementioned. Ukrainian counteroffensive.

“It’s not the issue of Wagnerites — the issue is about the whole front — everyone is lacking,” Yuri Mezinov is a pro-Kremlin politician from a Russian border area. “There are no rounds, you understand? None.”

Mezinov expressed his disappointment amid the bloody grind around Bakhmut This has led to bitter disputes between Wagner Group leadership, the Russian Defense Ministry, and numerous protests by conscripts who were sent on doomed attacks. Their frank complaints argue that the Moscow’s embrace of a war of attrition has backfired — a stunning assessment, for pro-Kremlin analysts, that runs contrary to Russia’s historical reputation for mustering overwhelming numbers of men and materiel in wartime.

“Our boys are dying in hundreds. Not just boys, but the best of my people, Russian people, their generation, their grandchildren and great grandchildren will never be,” Per the War Translated Project, Mezinov said. “I saw a lad — today he is gone. Because he diddm’t have enough artillery support. Along the whole front, we have a command to attack, we attack without fire support. Do we have problems with metal? Problems with metallurgists? Who can tell me? How is this possible?”

FEUD BETWEEN MERCENARIES & RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT NEARS ‘BOILING POINT’ IN BAKHMUT

Russian forces have concentrated their efforts on Bakhmut over the past months in a protracted battle that has led to Western officials fearing that Ukrainian military commanders were entangled in a conflict that could end in either defeat, or a pyrrhic victory. Ukrainian President Volodymyr ZelenskyTheir team insists they have turned against the Russian President Vladimir PutinRussia throws away such a thing “a large part of its trained military personnel” by relentless attacks on well-defended positions.

“The real heroes now are the defenders who hold the eastern front on their shoulders and, sparing neither themselves nor their enemies, inflict maximum losses on them,” Ukrainian Gen. Oleksandr Sirskyi, commander for the Ukrainian military’s Ground Forces Saturday. “It is necessary to buy time to accumulate reserves and start a counteroffensive, which is not far off.”

This outlook is contrary to Western security circles’ conventional wisdom, even the most supportive. UkraineThe war’s goals. These are some of the most dramatic and recent examples Initiatives To send military aid to Ukraine, we have accepted the fact that Putin will win a longer war.

“This is the time if we want to bring this to a successful conclusion — and, of course, we should, and we do — we should look to bring it to a conclusion quickly,” James Cleverly is the British Foreign Secretary During a January trip to Washington.

Paradoxally, Russia’s struggles surrounding Bakhmut have been paradoxical