Bakhmut Officially Falls - May, 20th - Same Day Mariupol Fell A Year Ago

"May 20th of the year 2023.
20.05.2023
Today at noon, 12 o'clock, Bakhmut has been taken completely. Last area of the so-called Airplane's high-rises.
The operation to capture Bakhmut has lasted for 224 days. Bakhmut's meatgrinder began on the 8th of October 2022 in order for the worn-out Russian army to recover. Guys have been storming this city for 224 days. Only PMC Wagner was here. There were no VDV or anyone else (despite what Konashenkov said) who could've helped us, we helped ourselves. PMC Wagner came to this war voluntarily and began defending our Motherland's interests by freeing territories. PMC Wagner, generals, former employees of the internal affairs, FSB and former convicts acted here like a well-coordinated team, like a united army. I want to thank the people of Russia who supported us. I thank all the guys who had died in this war, both the army personnel and the fighters of PMC Wagner. Thank you to everyone who's currently in the ranks, those who couldn't continue their contracts and those who'll come and fight alongside us in the future. Thank you, general Surovikin and general Mizintsev who gave us the opportunity to perform this difficult operation. Also, thank you, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin for giving us this opportunity and high honour to defend our Motherland. AFU weren't the only ones who we were fighting in Bakhmut, we were fighting the Russian bureaucracy that was putting spokes in our wheels. This concerns the military bureaucrats especially. Their names are partially known. It's Shoigu and Gerasimov, who turned the war into a source of personal entertainment, who decided that their whims will be fulfilled in this war. 5 times more guys died due to their whims. Sometime in history they'll pay for their actions, "atrocities" in Russian. We have prepared the list of people who helped us and of those who actively resisted us (de facto aiding our enemy).
We took Bakhmut today. Starting on 25th, we'll be withdrawing our forces in order to rest and retrain. We've fought for 427 days since March 19th of last year when the Motherland required our aid. We took the entire city from house to house in order to ensure that nobody can pedantically blame us for not taking a tiny piece of it. We'll fully inspect it until the 25th of May. We will create the necessary lines of defense and turn it over to the military so they can attend to it further. We will go to the field camps and when our country, our people, our families need us again, we'll return and protect our nation (if it's required). These guys will now hoist the flags that they're holding on their hands, flags of PMC Wagner and Russia. Now the short, television version. In our country, two realities exist, one's real and the other is for the TV. Short TV version, for those who won't be ashamed to take it: "Thanks, we @@@@@@@(censored), today on 20.05 we took the city of Bakhmut".
Also, Sanya, we shouldn't forget to send this to Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelenskiy.
Vl