The owner of Russia's Wagner military contractor threatened Friday to withdraw his troops next week from the protracted battle for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, accusing Moscow's military command of starving his forces of ammunition and causing them heavy losses.
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"These are someone's fathers and someone's sons," Prigozhin says, pointing at the bodies and swearing. "The scum that doesn't give us ammunition will eat their guts in hell." One general Prigozhin actively criticized was fired, but other top officials he has lashed out at appear to have retained the Kremlin's trust. In January, Putin put Gerasimov in charge of the Russian forces in Ukraine, a move some observers also interpreted as an attempt to cut Prigozhin down to size.
Ukrainian officials were skeptical about Prigozhin's claims of ammunition shortages. Ukraine's military intelligence representative, Andrii Cherniak, told The Associated Press that Wagner's forces had clearly failed in their goal of taking Bakhmut by May 9 and Prigozhin had made the statement to "justify their unsuccessful actions."
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