On May 10, one day after the planned party in Moscow, Wagner will withdraw from Bakhmut and hand over his position to the Russian army. This was announced by the head of the private military company, Yevgeny Prigozhin, after in a video the military leaders denounced the shortage of ammunition supplies.
Prigozhin posted the statement on his Telegram channels a few hours after he posted a video on his Telegram channels in which he showed the bodies of dozens of Wagner fighters lying on the ground and hurled insults at Defense Minister Serghei Shoigu and Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov. Now the Wagner founder again calls out to Shoigu and Gerasimov: “I officially announce that my men will not suffer losses in Bakhmut without ammunition. Therefore, we are leaving the city from May 10. We still have only two kilometers left, but if by conquering Bakhmut we will give the Russians a If you don’t want to triumph, these are your problems.”
Prigozhin then describes Wagner’s actions in the conflict. On March 16, 2022, when the “special military operation did not go according to plan”, the military leaders sought help from the private company and brought their first troops back from Africa three days later. After the Russian withdrawal from the Kharkiv region at the end of last summer, Wagner militias occupied a front line longer than 130 kilometers. Then Prigozhin continues, on October 8 they launched the ‘Bakhmut meat grinder’ operation with the aim of “attracting the Ukrainian forces to themselves and thus giving the army a break from Moscow”.
But Prigozhin continues, a month ago the Wagnerians stopped buying ammunition, and this became an obstacle to the capture of Bakhmut, which the founders of the company planned for May 9. Now Prigozhin says that Wagner will stay in Bakhmut until May 10, out of respect for the anniversary of the victory. “Then we will go to our rear camps and wait there until the Russian people need us again,” he adds.
Source: Today IT
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