Yevgeny Prigozhin, the millionaire proprietor of the Wagner Group army corporate that has spearheaded the Bakhmut offensive, has been at loggerheads with the Russian Defense Ministry and many times accused it of failing to offer his forces with ammunition.
On Sunday, he once more criticized most sensible army brass for shifting slowly to ship the promised ammunition and puzzled whether or not the lengthen used to be brought about “by way of purple tape or treason.”
On Monday, Prigozhin warned in a Russian social media post that the situation in Bakmut “will turn out to be a ‘pie’: The filling is the parts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine surrounded by us (in the case, of course, if there is a complete encirclement of Bakhmut), and the shell is, in fact, the Wagner” Group.
The commander of the Ukrainian land forces, Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi, noted after visiting Bakhmut that the fight has escalated with the deployment of additional Wagner forces.
Ukrainian troops, focused on defending the city’s north to prevent its encirclement, “have inflicted significant losses to the enemy, destroyed a large amount of equipment, forced the best Wagner assault units to be thrown into battle and reduced the enemy’s offensive potential”, he mentioned.
It got here as Russia’s defence minister, Sergei Shoigu toured Mariopul, a Ukrainian town that Russia has occupied since May remaining 12 months, after months of blockade and incessant bombing.
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