“Moscow is hammering Bahamut because it wants underground cities,” says Wagner founder

Its founder Russian mercenary organization “Wagner” said today that he would like his men and the regular Russian army to seize the eastern Ukrainian town of Bakhmut because it has “underground cities” where soldiers and tanks can be hidden.

The hammering, five months ago, the city of Bakhmut by Russian forces has troubled Western military analysts who say the heavy losses on the Russian side and the fact that the Ukrainians have built defensive lines to retreat there means that any Russian victory – if there is one – will be pyrrhic.

THE Yevgeny Prigozhinthe founder of Wagner, whose men are involved in the Battle of Bahamut, detailed today why he believes capturing the city would be important.

“The icing on the cake is their system Solentar and Bahmut mines, which is actually a network of underground cities. He doesn’t just have her ability to accommodate a large group of people at a depth of 80-100 meters, but tanks and infantry fighting vehicles can be moved there,” he said. He added that stockpiles of weapons had been stored in these underground complexes since World War II.

Prigozhin was referring to a large salt mine and other mines in the area which they have tunnels over 100 km long but also a huge underground hall which in the past, in peacetime, even hosted football matches and classical music concerts. A White House official said Thursday that Washington believed Prigozhin wanted to control the region’s mines for commercial purposes. However, he did not mention their possible military use.

Prigozhin, against whom they have been imposed sanctions from the Westhe cited other advantages from the capture of Bahamut, which he called a “serious logistics center” with unique defensive fortifications.

The comments were made on Telegram as gunfire rang out in the near-deserted streets of Bakhmut earlier today, despite Russia’s unilateral Christmas truce. Another Telegram account linked to Wagner said that the Russia captured a strategically important settlement on the outskirts of Bakhmut, which Moscow calls Artyomovsk.

Reuters was unable to independently verify the occupation of the settlement. A representative of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense said that the Solentar citywhich is near Bahamut and there is a salt mine, it is still under Ukrainian control, despite heavy Russian attacks.

Source: RES-MPE

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