Here is some information about the 72nd Brigade and the situation Prigozhin was talking about from Russian channels on Twitter and Telegram.
Quote from this tweet:
Video confirmed, maps not updated yet but Biletsky (commander of the Azov Battalion) mentions North West and video was mostly fields. Both sides mention 72 motorized rifle brigade, they are part of 3rd army corpse. 3rd army corpse has had a disastrous track record, not sure why you would put them on such important positions against UA's most battle hardened units from 3rd Azov and sso.
This is from the popular Russian Telegram channel "Операция Z: Военкоры Русской Весны", automatic translation:
AFU counterattack on the flank of Bakhmut and a breach of our defense - details
- As reported, on the flank near Bakhmut the AFU attacked and cut into our defense.
- Under the onslaught of armored groups one of the companies left its positions, "leaving a front nearly 2 km wide and 500 meters deep. We blocked it somehow," Prigozhin said yesterday. Journalist A. Kashevarova revealed some details of the battle.
- "There is a war of one trench," one of the commanders of the Wagner PMC told her. "Everyone sees only what is around him and draws conclusions about the whole situation on the front. And in this case, everyone thinks that only he fights and he is the only hero, while everyone else is guarding the corn.
- For two days the journalist analyzed the situation where the PMC and the 72nd Brigade fighters were standing: "I know that both fighters will fight to the death, but what happened? After all, I know the history, where they helped each other.
- According to her, the reason was a lack of coordination. The Wagners had a breakthrough in a different place and withdrew, and the 72nd Brigade did not know about it. As a result, the AFU struck where the artillery of the 72nd Brigade was standing without proper cover for the attackers.
- The commander of the 72nd Brigade, call sign "Sever", a great guy, got on an APC himself that night and rushed to the place of the breakthrough, writes Anastasiya.
- "It was hot. Losses were sustained by both the Wagner and the 72nd. The result was that the AFU advanced by three kilometers," adds the journalist.
- She stressed that while she was figuring things out, she unraveled a whole tangle of squabbles and squabbles. "And everyone is resentful of each other. Wagner, they say, tried to contact 72nd, but they didn't want to interact. 72nd says no one came out to them. The 72nd has a ban on working with a "bandwagon" from the MoD, and the Wagner are too proud."
- Often brigades don't even know who's on their left and who's on their right, and whether the rear is covered.
- Some say, "Oh, we haven't seen LNR and DNR battalions in a long time - are they even fighting? Ha-ha." LNR and DNR battalions: "And where are all your RF Armed Forces? One brigade: "Wagner's tank was stolen from us. Wagner's: "They crushed our loaf." Russian Army: "Akhmat wasn't there at all, just us," Kashevarova stresses.
- This disunity of the front is actively used by the enemy, our fighters suffer: "they are all ours, whether they are DNR or LNR, whether they are mobilized, whether they are volunteers, whether they are Vvshniks, whether they are Special Forces, Akhmatovs or 'musicians,'" she sums up.
Source, this post is from yesterday 18:14 PM:
