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My understanding is that the Wagner ex-prison conscripts were being used in the frontal westwards assault on central Bakhmut.
The VDV and ther experienced Russian troops were stationed on the north and south sides of the salient, and made progress as the Ukrainians were unable to hold off all three fronts.Supposedly some of the recently trained and equipped new Ukrainian forces have been sent to Bakhmut, (possibly to get some combat experience, and allow other UKF to rotate).
Prigozhin has burnt through his ex-prison guys and doesn't want to lose (all) his trained/experienced guys in the meat grinder of Bakhmut or in any Ukrainian counter attack.
mespilus
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Think in the last few weeks the VDV have been deployed to Bakhmut, so guess they'll do the remaining routing and Kadroyvites can just hold existing positions