The head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin again appealed to the Ministry of Defense in Moscow to provide his fighters with more ammunition, Sky News reports.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Wagner’s private paramilitary group, said his soldiers needed at least 300 tons of artillery shells a day to support the assault on the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.

“Three hundred tons a day – that’s 10 containers of cargo – that’s not much at all… But we’re not given more than a third of that amount,” Prigozhin says on the recording, which was apparently filmed in the northern city of Soledar, east of Bakhmut. .

Chief Wagner often criticizes the Russian Defense Ministry for what he believes is insufficient support for its fighter jets.

Wagner’s troops spent months leading the assault on the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, and Prigozhin claimed for about three weeks that his troops controlled more than 80 percent of the city.

In a separate video, Wagner’s leader says that if the group of mercenaries is destined to die, it is “not because of the Ukrainian army or NATO, but because of our vile bureaucrats at home.”

The fighting in Bakhmut became a war of attrition, and neither side was willing to retreat.

Kyiv and the West downplay the strategic importance of the city, although Ukraine has also repeatedly refused to withdraw its troops from there.

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