From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jakar

Armstrong and Joe Getty.

The Armstrong and Getty show.

The first thing to take away from this is that whilst the Ukrainians are saying they still

have a small foothold in the city of Bachmut, they can see that Wagner controls most

of the rest of the city that is rubble.

There is nothing left of the city to really care about.

That same Kylie of CNN talking about the story that came out over the weekend, Russia claiming

that they took the city of Bachmut after what, six months of fighting and a hundred thousand

casualties, according to Joe Biden at his press conference yesterday.

Like lines isn't so sure what's going on here.

propaganda that's all that's going on here.

This is the twilight part of this battle at this point.

There's nothing tactically more to be gained that the city has been flattened fundamentally.

It's more or less.

It shows Ukrainian resilience, but also Russian military failure.

They're trying to claim some kind of victory right now that just isn't there.

Yeah, I'm kind of confused by this.

So there's a New York Times headline yesterday saying Russia controls parts of Bachmut,

blah, blah, blah, and Ian Bremer tweeted out, no, you know you're wrong New York Times

Bachmut is gone.

He's plugged into a lot of different sources, Ian Bremer.

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