It is the second such message published by Yevgeny Prigozhin in two days on his Telegram channel
spearheading Russia’s months-long battle for the town of Bakhmut in Ukraine’s Donetsk region.
“There is simply direct opposition going on,” Prigozhin said in a voice message posted on his Telegram channel. “This can be equated to high treason”.It is the second such message published by Prigozhin in two days. On Monday, he complained that unnamed officials were denying Wagner supplies out of personal animosity to him.
Apparently angry, and speaking at times with a raised voice, Prigozhin blamed Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, the country’s most senior soldier, of deliberately causing the arms shortages, which he said were causing heightened losses among Wagner troops fighting around Bakhmut.
“The chief of the general staff and the defence minister are giving orders right and left not just not to give Wagner PMC ammunition, but not to help it with air transport,” Prigozhin said. Prigozhin has for months criticised senior commanders for what he has called their incompetence. Prigozhin has said that the defence ministry is trying to take credit for Wagner successes around the Donetsk region town of Bakhmut.
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