Russian defense leaders have butted heads with Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner Group founder, in recent months as the soldiers under both have fought and lost thousands on the front lines of their war in Ukraine.
div id="Brid_77092319" class="brid" style="width:16; height:9;" itemprop="video" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/VideoObject"> The ongoing friction between Russia's Ministry of Defense and the leader of the Wagner mercenary group is"unprecedented," according to a top State Department official.
Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said the tension between them is"unprecedented" during a Thursday morning event with the Washington Post. Prigozhin's private army, which has brutally operated in several African nations in recent years, deployed roughly 50,000 personnel to Ukraine's eastern region following the military's initial significant battlefield losses. They have fought in the region for months amassing significant casualties, while the group's leader has repeatedly and publicly questioned top ministry leaders.
The Wagner leader alleged that his troops do not have the same supplies as Russian forces in a recording released on Tuesday by his press service on Telegram.
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