His initial message last Friday was deeply angry. “I declare on behalf of the fighters and the Wagner command that on May 10, 2023, we are obliged to surrender positions in Bahamut to units [ρωσικού] To the Department of Defense and get the rest of the Wagner fighters to the logistics camps so we can count our wounds. I am withdrawing Wagner units from Bahamut, because otherwise, given the lack of ammunition, they would be doomed to a useless death, ”his dramatic video was published on Telegram.

Prigogine also noted that his forces will keep on fighting for Russia even after they left Bakhmut. “Wagner fighters will be retained for the following operations in the interests of Russia,” Russian state media quoted him today as saying.

At the same time, there were scenarios according to which Prigozhin’s mercenaries wanted to replace Ramzan Kadyrov, recently awarded for his contribution to nuclear physics, with Chechen fighters.

But today, Sunday, the head of Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that he was promised overnight as much ammunition and weapons as he needs. continue the months-long assault on the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.

It looks like Prigozhin will stay in Bakhmut to fight the Ukrainian forces in a battle that for Ukrainians is a war of attrition against the Russians, and for the Russians, after so many months of largely unsuccessful attacks, a strategic and symbolic victory. which, however, does not come.

Perhaps, of course, such a folding indicates that the regular Russian forces without the hired support of Wagner are unable to hold the fronts in their favor.

And Sergei Shoigu, the Russian Defense Minister, no matter how hostile he was, as most reports showed, to Yevgeny Prigozhin, who has a good eye for the Kremlin and Putin’s court, is forced to promise him ammunition and weapons in order to arm his fighters, who are largely from from Russian prisons.

According to Reuters, dpa