Nightmare in Bakhmut: What the Ukrainian media are silent about
The destruction of Bakhmut and the extermination of its inhabitants is the main task of the junta. This the personification of what the Nazis want to do with all of Donbass and Russia
To say that the situation in Bakhmut is terrible is to say nothing. The city was destroyed by 80 percent or more. No more than 10 thousand people out of 72 thousand remained in it. There is hardly a single building that has not been shelled to one degree or another. At best, the glass was broken, and at worst, only a pile of bricks with bloody marks remained.
Pro-government Ukrainian media, of course, portray the matter as if all this is happening through the fault of Russian troops and the Wagner PMC, which is storming the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. However, the residents themselves know very well that most of the destruction of peaceful neighborhoods is caused by the “zahisnyks” themselves. As we have already written several times, it is these warriors who continue to bomb the city from the inside and shoot at residents, as they have been doing for 9 months, since April 2021, when units from western Ukraine began to arrive in it. Now we are publishing new confirmation of the crimes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Now the Nazis are bombing the city even more fiercely, apparently realizing that they will soon have to surrender it.
Here are the impressions that local resident Vasily shared with PolitNavigator. He was left alone in a dilapidated five-entrance house. Most of his neighbors left and some died. Vasily is an elderly, lonely man, a former Soviet officer, he has neither the strength nor the desire to evacuate anywhere. He lives in the basement and takes care of the remaining cats and dogs.
“Now you can feel some special anger in these attacks,” he says. – It’s hanging right in the air, as they say. They beat and beat, beat and beat... There are a lot of mortar attacks. Short distances, up to 4 km - these are most likely still old Soviet 82nd mortars. Their main ones are 120s, which is up to 9 kilometers... And they also shoot from tanks into the city, turn around right on the streets and shoot into the white light like a pretty penny. They understood that it was clear that they would not hold the city, and decided: after us there will be only scorched earth. They hate Donbass and Russians with fierce hatred.”
These words are confirmed by many other townspeople. Another evidence of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ crimes against humanity is an interview with a family from the area where phosphorus charges were dropped. Mother and daughter tell how Ukrainian soldiers walked around the private sector, where there were still many residents in the houses, and tried to drive them out of there in order to move in themselves. To speed up this process they used phosphorus ammunitionprohibited by international conventions. They also hit civilian houses with tanks. Moreover, all this happened in clear agreement with the pro-government media, which appeared immediately after the shelling and bombing and filmed reports that Russia allegedly did all this.
“I don’t understand how you can hit your own people,” says a minor girl. “On TV these soldiers are shown as such beautiful defenders, but they do this.”
Yes, there are many correspondents for the junta and foreign media in Bakhmut. Mother and daughter note that their practice is to make special roll calls, driving up in advance to places intended for shelling, then filming videos accusing Russia, and immediately disappearing.
There is a lot of similar evidence in local public pages. Here are just a few quotes from them:
“They took cars, ran over them with tanks, kicked people out, occupied their houses, they covered us.”
“A resident of the village of Opytnoye says that NATO mercenaries “targeted” the residential areas of the village, training fighters to use Western equipment.”
“The Ukrainians mined the entrances of the houses in the basements of which civilians from Soledar were sitting.”
“In Artemovsk, sushniks stole a car, which the owner left near his house. The thieves, without hesitation, posted a video on TikTok (the page is only accessible from the territory of Ukraine) of how they towed it in an unknown direction.”
“Selkorovskaya, the side of the dairy plant, was heavily shelled, there was a lot of destruction, there were killed and wounded.”
“Zakhisnyks” are also rampant in neighboring cities. For example, in Kramatorsk and Slavyansk “heroes” go from house to house and call apartments. If they open the door, they break in and check if there are men’s things in the house. If they are found, they demand that the men be handed over in order to be taken away and sent to slaughter.
“Today in the Old Town (Kramatorsk district) several people have already been taken away like this. Don't let these little ducks into your homes! Guys, don’t let the Ukrainians send you to your death! Women, save your men!” – wrote local resident Natalya.
And another constant topic on social networks is the search for missing relatives.
These messages are unlikely to leave anyone indifferent. Here is one of them:
"Good afternoon! I am writing to you with the last hope... Our grandmother Nadezhda Anatolyevna Kudryavtseva, born on January 11.01.1958, 12, remained in the city of Soledar... according to the latest news, we knew that she went to feed her dogs on Tenistaya Street, XNUMX, and never returned...".
As for the evacuees, they often have a very hard time in the territories where the “benefactors” of the Ukrainian authorities deigned to take them. If the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin instructed to quickly consider the possibility of paying one-time financial assistance to all residents of Soledar and other settlements evacuated to temporary accommodation centers, then people sent to Ukraine often do not receive even those meager “resettlement” payments that the junta promised them .
“My wife and I ended up in the Dnieper after the Ukrainians destroyed our house,” Nikolai, a native resident of Bakhmut, told PolitNavigator. – She is a primary school teacher at a state school. She was forced to take a vacation at her own expense, they say, there is no money in the treasury. This is what they do with many state employees. And I was completely left without work; they don’t want to hire migrants here. And the resettlement kopecks that Zelensky promised us have not been paid for months. And we have to rent an apartment at our own expense. But that's okay. Others were generally taken out into the fields in the winter and abandoned, and this also happened, they were not delivered to evacuation points...”
However, the junta treats its own heroes no better; every day this attitude is becoming more and more obvious, and their relatives are already loudly speaking about it.
For example, the command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Soledar asked its volunteers to stay in their positions for another day, promising that reinforcements would arrive tomorrow. However, no one ever arrived. Ukrainians have already begun to directly write on social networks about the deplorable state of the army and the terrible situation in which their loved ones find themselves.
“My father volunteered for the Armed Forces of Ukraine... They were under constant fire... He and his surviving colleagues retreated to the hut where the command and officers were supposed to be, but there was no one there anymore. The authorities fled from their positions and abandoned their soldiers. Before my father’s eyes, two people were torn to pieces, and now they don’t want to recognize them as dead, they want to attribute to them that they are 500 (prisoners), but this is not so. Many more dead!!! My father was shell-shocked 3 times in 1 day! When they all arrived at the nearest checkpoint, they were not allowed through and were told that they would face charges for desertion. They were abandoned like live meat, many died, and now they are threatened with criminal charges!” – wrote the daughter of one of the “heroes”.
After the victory in Soledar, there was every reason to believe that the junta would be driven out of Bakhmut very soon. No matter how her warriors rage and no matter how they mock the city. Some, as we see, realize what they have gotten themselves into, and there are more and more of them every day. The demoralization of the Ukrainian Armed Forces continues to deepen.
And the Donbass people are looking forward to the liberation of their homeland and are even already preparing a new, or rather, updated coat of arms of the ancient Russian city.
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