to vladimir putin. there s only one person at the end of the day who s indispensable, and that s putin. this is a guy who has survived. he has been incredibly brutal. he has found himself in very difficult circumstances on any number of occasions. he is a survivor. there is almost no one else who pays attention to what goes on in russia who thought that vladimir putin could be trusted who didn t think that prigozhin had a target on his back. that s why it doesn t i m just trying to figure out why he would think that somehow he was going to be different? well, look, yeah, because nobody knows better than prigozhin the revenge that putin exacts on his enemies because sometimes prigozhin was the one who did it. it s hard to get in the psychology of a guy like this who s basically a sociopathic. prigozhin was out there nihilistic awful stuff, throwing human waves essentially at the ukrainian lines in the ukrainian
prigozhin over them. he sent his convicts into battle like cannon father, and anybody that tried to retreat was shot. in a war of attrition, it s all about who can outlast the other in terms of the empowering capabilities. the russians were willing to feed people like that into this meat grinder. he used the presidents that he recruited to conduct human waves, pushing them out into bakhmut. there were slaughtered by the thousands. the savage strategy was working. he was making advances in bakhmut.
had interested the mission to prigozhin over them. prigozhin sent his convicts into battle like cannon falls are. and anyone who tried to retreat was shot. in a war of attrition, it is all about who can outlast the other in terms of capabilities. and so the russians were willing to feed people like that into this meat grinder. prigozhin use the prisoners that he conducted, to have human waves pushed into bakhmut, and they were slaughtered by the thousands. but the savage strategy was working. wagner was making advances in bakhmut. [speaking non-english] and leveling the city in the process.
human waves pushed into bakhmut, and they were slaughtered by the thousands. but the savage strategy was working. wagner was making advances in bakhmut. [speaking non-english] and leveling the city in the process. i went into bakhmut, as russian artillery was raining down every minute. the city had become an unlivable wasteland. there is an odd thing about the fight here, russia does not gain much by taking this city. bakhmut isn t particularly strategic. it does not dominate any key roads or terrain. instead, all of this destruction is to a large degree, an advertisement for the russian mercenary group leading this fight. the wagner group is getting famous from all of this, so, the biggest, bloodiest battle in this entire war is a marketing campaign for russian mercenaries. [sound of artillery] for wagner, every shell that was dropped here, every person who has driven into shelters, every life that was last was an
shooting people who refused to conduct those attack in human waves. and by the way, prigozhin withdrew his force, prior to the counteroffensive. he knew that the ukrainians were getting ready to attack and knew bakhmut was going to be one of them. he transferred out of there and transferred responsible to the russian defensive forces. for a long time, prigozhin, with some justification believed he wasn t getting the support that he needed to and particularly, if you think i m the point of the spear here, and i m doing the work of what other forces should be doing, then you should disproportionally support me is the case he s making. and i think he had an argument there that has his voice got louder and louder and criticism, they began to pull back some of the support. whether he was actually attacked or not recently is what he s claiming, we just don t have any verification of