Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner PMC mercenaries, said Monday that his military group has a “serious problem” with its ammunition supply, rhetorically asking whom it should surrender to in order to fix the situation, CNN reported.

“The issues we raised about ammunition unfortunately remain unresolved,” he said in a video posted on his Telegram channel, adding that it was a “big problem.”

Mercenary boss Wagner said he believes Russia has enough munitions because “industry has reached the desired level,” but he personally cannot solve the problem of supplying his troops, despite all the “connections and knowledge” he has.

Prigozhin also says that he was told that to solve the problem he should “go apologize” to someone “above” with whom he has a “difficult relationship.” However, he claims that he does not know which person it is.

“To whom should I apologize? To whom to bow? 140 million Russians! Please tell me who I should bow down to so that my boys die twice as often as they do today,” he lamented in his signature fake-out style.

Yevgeny Prigozhin complains that he is being prevented from winning the war

CNN notes that it cannot independently verify Prigozhin’s claim that Wagner’s mercenaries lacked ammunition, but Russia’s human rights commissioner Tetyana Moskalkova last week asked the chief of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, to investigate reports that some recruits were allegedly being sent to fight in Ukraine. . practically without weapons.”

Prigozhin also commented on Monday that he had no such problems with ammunition when General Sergei Surovykin, who some analysts believe is close to him, was in command of the invasion force. Prigozhin had previously praised him for the organized withdrawal of Russian troops from the western bank of the Dnieper to the Kherson region.

However, in January, Vladimir Putin replaced Surovikin as commander-in-chief of the invasion forces with Valery Gerasimov. The US Institute for the Study of War, in a further assessment of this decision, noted that Putin may have lost confidence in Wagner’s mercenaries, led by Prigozhin, due to their failure to capture the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region.

“Those who prevent us from winning this war are working directly for the enemy,” mercenary commander Wagner said Monday.

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Last week, The Moscow Times noted that Sergei Shoigu had ordered state media to stop covering Prigozhin after his repeated criticism of Moscow’s military command eventually ousted the Russian defense minister.

Prigozhin, who previously stated that the Russian military is run by “clowns”, was removed from the small screen: according to pro-Kremlin political scientist Sergei Markov, TV channels were ordered not to mention the name of the group’s founder, Wagner. An adviser close to Vladimir Putin.

Even the head of Wagner’s mercenaries confirmed the decision to exclude Prigozhin from the propaganda matrix.

Prigozhin published in the Telegram channel of the paramilitary group “Grey Zone” a document from the Ministry of Defense of Russia with a request not to mention his name and not to publish his statements regarding participation in the war in Ukraine.

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