Around Bakhmut, the war is not only between Ukraine and Russia, but also between Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Russian Ministry of Defense. They compete to see who will bring Vladimir Putin the long-awaited victory.
So, the Russian dictator needs at least a small victory, and it is important for his henchmen who will bring this message. Russian political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin told Channel 24 about this.
Prigozhin fights with the Ministry of Defense to bring victory to the owner
According to the Russian political scientist, Prigozhin, the owner of Wagner PMC, has the best prospects. So the Ministry of Defense of the aggressor country is in no hurry to help him. Hence the shell hunger that Prigozhin complains about.
This fight between the entourage of the head of the Kremlin is absolutely in his style. It is necessary that Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov understood that they were irreplaceable. To do this, Putin “launches Prigozhin into the pool so that he bites the generals on the legs and they move faster.”
Yes, if for the Russian generals this is a kind of incentive, then for the owner of the Wagner PMC it is an opportunity. Namely, the opportunity to create political capital for himself and join the elite, so it is vital for him what is happening around Bakhmut.
This is the climax, because the Russian side has no progress anywhere, although this is constantly reported. Putin is already on the verge of a catastrophic hysteria and demands a message about the victory, the Russian political scientist noted.
However, both Prigozhin and the Russian Ministry of Defense are already running out of resources. It's not just that Iran gave Russia an insane amount of balls and shells. It can already be seen that the Soviet ones, of which there were a lot, are not enough.
Oreshkin on the struggle between Prigozhin and the Russian Ministry of Defense: watch the video
Consequently, the situation is approaching such a local peak, because even if the invaders manage to take Bakhmut, nothing terrible will happen. However, Putin desperately needs to show the people something resembling a victory, so there is nothing on his agenda except Bakhmut.
Bakhmut is a very conflict zone between everyone in the Kremlin and all the madness of this war is now focused on this point. However, during the year of a full-scale war, the invaders did not manage to make any significant progress in this area. And with such a pace, victorious offensives are not carried out.
It is already becoming clear that strategically the Russians have lost, which is why the Russian dictator is so nervous.
