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→Battle of Bakhmut
{{See also|Battle of Bakhmut}}
{{See also|Battle of Bakhmut}}
Just as [[der Führer]] of the [[Third Reich]], [[Adolf Hitler]] did during the [[Second World War]], [[Zelensky]] ordered that there be no Ukrainian retreat from the frontline city of [[Bakhmut]], giving no solution to a hopeless situation for the Ukrainian military. Ukrainian officers ensured that by blowing up the one bridge providing an escape route to Slavyansk, Ukrainian soldiers could not retreat.
Just as [[der Führer]] of the [[Third Reich]], [[Adolf Hitler]] did during the [[Second World War]], [[Zelensky]] ordered that there be no Ukrainian retreat from the frontline city of [[Bakhmut]], giving no solution to a hopeless situation for the Ukrainian military. Ukrainian officers ensured that by blowing up the one bridge providing an escape route to Slavyansk, Ukrainian soldiers could not retreat.
[[File:Bakhmut meatginder.jpg|left|225px|thumb|The Bakhmut meatgrinder.]]
''[[Newsweek]]'' spoke with 'former' U.S. Colonel Andrew Milburn who, together with 'volunteers', trained Ukrainian soldiers: "They've been taking extraordinarily high casualties," Milburn said of the units training with the American Mozart PMC. "The numbers you are reading in the media about 70 percent and above casualties being routine are not exaggerated."<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/wagner-group-targeting-volunteers-ukraine-mozart-group-russia-andy-milburn-1765321</ref> A unit with 50% casualties is usually no longer able to fight and withdrawn from combat. But Zelensky left the units on the frontline until nearly nobody was left in them.
''[[Newsweek]]'' spoke with 'former' U.S. Colonel Andrew Milburn who, together with 'volunteers', trained Ukrainian soldiers: "They've been taking extraordinarily high casualties," Milburn said of the units training with the American Mozart PMC. "The numbers you are reading in the media about 70 percent and above casualties being routine are not exaggerated."<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/wagner-group-targeting-volunteers-ukraine-mozart-group-russia-andy-milburn-1765321</ref> A unit with 50% casualties is usually no longer able to fight and withdrawn from combat. But Zelensky left the units on the frontline until nearly nobody was left in them.