The strategy used by the Russian army in those bloody days in Soledar resembles, for Il Giornale, Stalinist tactics wave people thrown into the storm of enemy positions, without worrying about huge losses.

Increasingly difficult due to the lack of appropriate weapons (Western sanctions are biting), Putin, today’s dictator, has to imitate yesterday’s Joseph Stalin.

In the 1950s, Vasyl Grossman wrote that the real revolution in his country would take place when people would finally give up their enslaved souls: but seventy years had passed in vain.

To compensate for these losses, a new mobilization of half a million Russians is already under consideration, the ultimate goal of which, according to Ukrainian sources, is to enlist up to two million men in uniform for the “tsarist” wars of the 19th century.

Another Stalinist trait is the plan to fully exploit the four hundred thousand prisoners in Russian penitentiary institutions: those who love risk can join Yevgeny Prigozhin’s “Wagnerians” as cannon fodder, and the rest will be involved in the production of weapons, uniforms and everything else. .

But this will likely only have a Korean end in Ukraine, with war frozen sine die and NATO armed much more heavily than before on its borders.

“This is the return of the Gulag Archipelago, the cynical state that squeezes the disaffected people, masterfully described by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and forgotten by the henchmen of Putin, the leader of the Kremlin who dreams of rebuilding an empire,” writes Roberto Fabbri in Il Giornale.

“For every 100 meters, Russia pays with 50 dead”

Two Ukrainian soldiers reporting from Bakhmut on Thursday morning say that the situation in Soledar is difficult, explain why, and note that for every 100 meters of advance, the Russians “pay” with 50 dead.

In just 24 hours, more than 100 Russian soldiers were killed in the battles for Soledar, declared the Ukrainian governor of Donetsk, Pavlo Kyrylenko: “The Russians literally walked over the bodies of their own soldiers, burning everything in their path.”

Approximate losses of the Russians for the last day

A new estimate of Russian losses over the last day: 530 troops, 6 tanks, 6 BMPs, 4 artillery pieces, 13 different pieces of equipment, an anti-aircraft complex and 2 special vehicles and 2 drones: