{"id":1866160,"date":"2023-03-03T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-mercenary-chief-says-ukraines-bakhmut-is-practically-surrounded\/"},"modified":"2023-03-03T08:59:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T13:59:54","slug":"russian-mercenary-chief-says-ukraines-bakhmut-is-practically-surrounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-mercenary-chief-says-ukraines-bakhmut-is-practically-surrounded\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Mercenary Chief Says Ukraine\u2019s Bakhmut Is Practically Surrounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussian-mercenary-chief-says-ukraines-bakhmut-is-practically-surrounded%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1866160&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/localimages\/prigozhin-1200x657.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yevgeny Privozhin (Russia&#8217;s Wagner Mercenary Force founder) speaks in Paraskoviivka, Ukraine, in this still from an undated clip, released March 3, 2023. (Concord Press Service\/via Reuters).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Yevgeny Pirizhin, Russia\u2019s founder of Wagner&#8217;s mercenary force, said that Bakhmut was in Ukraine. &#8220;practically surrounded&#8221; Kyiv was limited to one way.<\/p>\n<p>Since months, Prigozhin and his men have been leading the attack against eastern Ukraine. Moscow sees Bakhmut, which it used to call Artyomovsk during Soviet times, as a way to get to larger cities such as Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows Prigozhin in a military uniform, calling on Volodymr Zeleskyy, Ukraine&#8217;s President, to withdraw his troops and forces from the small Ukrainian town.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Units from the private military company Wagner have virtually surrounded Bakhmut. Only one road remains (open to Ukrainian forces). The pincers get tighter,&#8221; Prigozhin.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters geolocated Paraskoviivka&#8217;s video (4.3 miles (7km), north of Bakhmut\u2019s center). Prigozhin captured Paraskoviivka in February 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Prigozhin said that his forces are fighting more against children and older men than the professional Ukrainian army.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Prigozhin uploaded another video showing his fighters in Bakhmut. Reuters geolocated the footage east Bakhmut, approximately 1.2 miles (2 km) from the city center.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p> From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/russian-mercenary-chief-says-ukraines-bakhmut-is-practically-surrounded_5097322.html?utm_source=partner&#038;utm_campaign=conservnewsd\">Russian Mercenary Chief Says Ukraine\u2019s Bakhmut Is Practically Surrounded<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yevgeny Privozhin (Russia&#8217;s Wagner Mercenary Force founder) speaks in Paraskoviivka, Ukraine, in this still from an undated clip, released March 3, 2023. (Concord Press Service\/via Reuters). Yevgeny Pirizhin, Russia\u2019s founder of Wagner&#8217;s mercenary force, said that Bakhmut was in Ukraine. &#8220;practically surrounded&#8221; Kyiv was limited to one way. 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