The fighters have been on this front for nine months and the lack of ammunition has caused a large number of casualties in their ranks. The head of the group previously denounced that nearly 100 men die every day.
The founder and owner of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has threatened to withdraw its units from the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, in the eastern region of Donetsk next Wednesday, May 10, due to a lack of ammunition and the large number of casualties in their ranks.
This was announced this Friday through a video published on his Telegram addressing the Chief of the General Staff, Valeri Guerasimov, the Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, the Supreme Commander, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian people. lacking ammunition, the mercenaries are “condemned to a useless death”.
your warriors it’s been nine months on this front and ensures that alone they have 10% of the ammunition they need. Prigozhin had previously denounced that his units they lose about 100 men daily in Bakhmut and that the number of casualties would be five times less if the units were given the right amount of ammunition.
“On behalf of the Wagner fighters and their order that on May 10, 2023 we will be obliged to hand over the positions in the city of Bakhmut to the units of the Ministry of Defense and move the fighters to the rear to lick our wounds”, has communicated.
However, he adds that military bureaucrats have denied them access to almost all types of artillery projectiles since May 1. Yet it turned out their willingness to defend the homeland again after “licking the wounds”. “The Russian people can count on us,” he concluded.
Source: EITB
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