In a video released on Thursday, Wagner’s boss threatened to leave the Ukrainian frontline if Moscow didn’t supply its troops with fresh ammunition.
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Published on 06/05/2023 17:54
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Yevgeny Prigoyine, leader of the Wagner paramilitary group, on April 6, 2023 in the Krasnodar Territory of southern Russia. (TELEGRAM / @CONCORDGROUP_OFFICIAL / AFP)
Evguéni Prigojine wants to carry out his threats. The leader of the paramilitary group Wagner said Saturday, May 6, that he wanted to surrender his positions to Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov and his troops. In a video released on Thursday, Wagner’s boss threatened to leave the Ukrainian frontline if Moscow didn’t supply its troops with fresh ammunition.
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“I ask you to issue a battle order for the transfer of the positions of the Wagner group to the units of the Akhmat battalion in the village of Bakhmout and its surroundings by midnight on May 10,” Yevgeny Prigoyine said in a letter to the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, published by his press service. The Wagner boss specified this request “due to a long lack of ammunition” and accused the workforce of only having made 32% of the requested quantity available to him since last October.
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On Telegram, Ramzan Kadyrov asserted that his troops were “ready to advance towards” Bakhmout. “I have already signed a letter addressed to the Commander-in-Chief with the will to return the city and cleanse it of Otab,” he said.
Without specifying the Kremlin’s response to Wagner’s request, Ramzan Kaydrov assured that he had “already started to develop [une] Strategy of action with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, taking into account enemy tactics and the resources at our disposal”.
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