The Russians did not have enough strength to reflect the container of the Armed Forces in Bakhmut - isw

The report of May 10 states that experts could not find visual confirmations that the Armed Forces destroyed the 6th and 8th company of the 72nd Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 3rd Army Corps of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. However, the 72nd brigade of the Russian Armed Forces itself is a symbol of many problems faced by the Ministry of Defense of Russia. So, as analysts noted, the brigade began to be formed in the 3rd Army Corps in August 2022.

Mostly it consisted of volunteer battalions. Already in September 2022 it was reported that the 3rd Army Corps was transferred to the Kharkiv region. The counter -offensive of the Armed Forces there largely destroyed the components of the building. Among them was the 72 motorized rifle brigade.

According to analysts, in Ukraine then it was assumed that the surviving units of the 72nd separate motorized rifle brigade could be relocated to the Nikolaev area, but there they also suffered losses during the Armed Forces in the south. Analysts noted that they could not confirm where the remains of the 72nd brigade were overwhelmed, but the fact that they appeared under Bakhmut indicates that they could not fight properly.

The connection, which has already suffered two defeats in a row, as well as the exhausted forces of the Wagner PEC have very limited ability to protect against the contractor of the Armed Forces. "Problems with situational introduction of various exhausted troops into the Bakhmut direction, as well as clear failures in the management, probably prevent the Russian forces in the area to carry out reliable defense operations," the report reads.

We will remind that the soldiers of the Armed Forces told how they were fighting with "Wagner" in Bakhmut. According to the Ukrainian military, the mercenaries of the Wagner PEC are well at war, but they do not keep their people at all. Some soldiers suggest that the Russians are attacking drugs. It was also reported that Prigogine stated the risk of the Wagner PEC in Bakhmut.