Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, said on Sunday that during the night he was promised to provide as much ammunition and weapons as would be needed to continue the assault on the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, Reuters reports.
On Sunday, in an audio message on his Telegram channel, Prigozhin said: “I received an order to fight at night, for the first time in all this time.”
“We were promised as much ammunition and weapons as we need to continue operations. We were promised that everything necessary to prevent the enemy from blocking our paths (supplies) will be deployed on the flank,” he added.
Fierce fighting continued in Bakhmut on Sunday after a Ukrainian military spokesman said late Saturday that Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s tirade about an acute shortage of ammunition was a “complete bluff.”
“We control a part of the city. Nothing has changed there, the positional war continues. The enemy has not made much progress,” Serhiy Cherevaty, the spokesman for the eastern group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, told CNN on Saturday.
Kadyrov claims that he is ready to take over Wagner’s positions in Bakhmut
On Saturday, Prigozhin announced that he would hand over the positions of his mercenaries of the “Wagner” PMC in the city of Bakhmut to the “Kadyrovs” – the troops of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, subordinate to the Russian Armed Forces.
On Saturday, Kadyrov announced that his troops had already started moving towards Bakhmut.
“Akhmat’s units are ready to attack Bakhmut. I have already signed a letter addressed to the Supreme Commander (President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin – no) about my readiness to seize the city and clear it of (NATO forces) and Ukrainian Satanists by the forces of the Akhmat units, Kadyrov said this on Saturday in a video published on his Telegram channel and quoted by EDE.
On Friday, Prigozhin filmed himself standing next to dozens of corpses of his soldiers, criticizing the command of the Russian army for running out of ammunition more than ever.
Later, he announced that from May 10, “Wagner” would withdraw from the battle for Bakhmut “to lick its wounds.”
Source: Hot News
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