Yevgeny Prgozhin made serious accusations when Vladimir Putin attended the Victory Day military parade on Red Square. The head of the Wagner paramilitary group said in a new video message on Tuesday that Russian regular army soldiers had left their positions in Bakhmut, where bloody fighting has raged for nearly 10 months, and accused the Kremlin of failing to protect Russia. assuming that Moscow will not win the war in Ukraine.

“Today (Tuesday – no) one of the units of the Ministry of Defense escaped from one of our flanks (…) They abandoned their positions, they all fled,” Yevhen Prigozhin, who was in open conflict with the Russian military hierarchy, accused, AFP notes.

“Why can’t the state protect the country?” he said in a video posted on the Telegram channel during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s participation in a military parade in Moscow in honor of the victory over Nazi Germany in 1945.

“Victory Day is the victory of our ancestors, we did not deserve even a fraction of this victory,” Prigozhin said.

“There is a crime called “destruction of the Russian people” (…) and this is done by a small group,” he said, pointing to the General Staff.

Prigozhin says that he will not leave Bakhmut until he leaves

Last week, Prigozhin threatened to withdraw his forces from Bakhmut on May 10 if he did not receive the ammunition he demanded. On Sunday, he said he had received a “promise” of sufficient supplies, apparently ruling out an immediate exit from Bakhmut.

Although he said on Monday night that there were indications that he would receive the much-desired ammunition, he returned with a message saying that he had not actually received it.

Shortly after the end of a military parade in Red Square, he reiterated that he would begin withdrawing his forces if there were not enough supplies, saying that Wagner’s group had received “only 10%” of the ammunition it had requested on Tuesday, saying that Wagner’s Mercenaries “were outright cheated.” .

However, Prigozhin said: “We will not leave Bakhmut, we will stay for a few more days, we will fight, despite everything that is happening, we will manage,” he said.

If he has been criticizing Russian army commanders for months, whom he calls incompetent, the verbal attacks of “Putin’s cook” have become more frequent.

The Russian command wants to “deceive” Putin

He also accused the military hierarchy of trying to “deceive” Vladimir Putin.

“If you do everything to deceive the Supreme Commander (not Vladimir Putin), then either the Supreme will crush you, or the Russian people will be angry if the war is lost,” Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a long half-video. hour, very critically, again accusing the army of not supplying the ammunition needed to conquer Bakhmut.

And the Russian state media, with reference to Prigozhin, report that the Ukrainian armed forces are “currently breaking the flanks” in the direction of Bakhmut, regrouping in Zaporizhzhia and will launch a counteroffensive in the near future.

“Today they are [trupele ucrainene] they break through the flanks in the direction of Artemivsk (the Russian name is Bakhmut, no), regroup in Zaporizhzhia, and soon the counteroffensive begins. They are absolutely clear: the counterattack will be on the field, not on TV,” he said.

“Everything is being done so that the front fails,” he emphasized, referring to a unit of the Russian regular army that “fled and left its positions” on one of the flanks of Bakhmut and left an area about 2 kilometers wide and 500 kilometers deep, notes SwissInfo. .

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