Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of mercenaries of the “Wagner” PMC, released a video from the cockpit of the Su-24 bomber, which, according to the press service of his company Concordia, was participating in a combat mission.

The press service of Concordia, Prigozhin’s catering company, for which he has been dubbed President Vladimir Putin’s “chef,” said Monday that the mercenary leader flew aboard an Su-24 as a navigator during the bombing of Ukrainian positions near the Russian city of Artemivsk. the name of the city of Bakhmut.

Last Wednesday, pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk announced that the city of Bakhmut was “operationally surrounded”, a fact that Prigozhin himself soon denied.

“The operational circle is when all roads and routes of supply, evacuation and any transit routes are controlled from enemy fire. Now we don’t have an operative circle in Bakhmut,” Yevgeny Prigozhin wrote in his Telegram channel on December 1.

The head of Wagner’s mercenaries also said that such information “is not made public for operational reasons.” “When the city is conquered, you will no doubt know,” he assured.

Evgeny Prigozhin wants personal credit for the possible downfall of Bakhmut

In an assessment of the war in Ukraine on Sunday, the Ministry of Defense of Great Britain noted that the city of Bakhmut, around which bloody battles have been going on for more than six months, is becoming “increasingly isolated”.

“M03 and H32 are the two main routes into the city for Ukrainian defenders — both are likely to come under direct fire from a Russian offensive (…) While several alternative cross-country supply routes remain available to Ukrainian forces, Bakhmut is increasingly isolated “, the Ministry of Defense in London said a day ago.

AFP video last week showed that the city has been under constant bombardment by Russian forces trying to capture Bakhmut since early August last year.

This Russian offensive, the only one Putin’s army has attempted in Ukraine in months, is led by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mercenaries.

On January 11, in another video, Prigozhin personally stated that his mercenaries “completely captured” the city of Soledar, which is key to the Ukrainian positions that defended Bakhmut.

Although Prigozhin’s new claims about the “combat mission” he was involved in raise serious doubts, it appears that his group of mercenaries also had military aircraft at their disposal, with information about this also coming from their involvement in the conflict in Libya or Syria.

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