Threat of withdrawal, rants: what is Prigojine, Wagner's boss, playing at?

2023-05-07T12:47:04.578Z

After threatening to withdraw his troops from Bakhmout if they did not receive more ammunition, the militia leader seems to have won his case. Was it a simple push or a longer term strategy?

It's a formal push... that seems to have worked.

Friday, May 5, the boss of the private military company Wagner, Evgueni Prigojine, threatened to withdraw his troops from the Bakhmout front from May 10, because of a “long

shortage of ammunition

”.

The one who is nicknamed "

Putin's cook

" accuses the Russian general staff of having provided him with only 32% of the ammunition requested since last October.

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In a video of rare violence, where he exposes the corpses of his men fallen at the front, Prigojine strongly challenged on this subject the Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu and the Chief of Staff Valéri Guerassimov, commander of the Russian offensive in Ukraine.

He even demanded that Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov's troops take over.

This Sunday, the boss of Wagner seems to have been heard, since he claims to have had "

the promise

" from Moscow to receive the requested ammunition.