DISINFO: The West and Kyiv are responsible for the Ukrainian deaths in Bakhmut
SUMMARY
The Bakhmut slaughter was predictable. The Ukrainians waited for help from the West which never arrived. [It was] a real massacre, with huge losses on the Ukrainian side.
Unfortunately, the Kyiv government preferred to let the majority of its soldiers die in a slaughter.
RESPONSE
Recurrent pro-Kremlin narrative about the large losses of Ukrainian army, allegedly because of lack of European support.
The important level of losses in Bakhmut is partially true, but Russia is the only one responsible for those deaths. The argument that Europeans did not provide enough defensive military equipment to sustain massive Russian assaults, and therefore that Russian responsibility for the deaths could be transferred to European is specious. Just like the argument that Kyiv is responsible for the destruction of the country because it resists the Russian invasion as stated Sergey Lavrov in May 2022, this is wrong.
Moreover, the Russian losses are one order of magnitude higher than those of the Ukrainians. Particularly among the Wagner PMC, many convicts are considered as a one-time-use soldiers and suffer huge casualties.
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