STRAIGHT. War in Ukraine: Wagner’s chief accuses the Russian General Staff of “treason”

boss WagneR accuses the Russian General Staff of “treason”

The head of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner on Tuesday accused his country’s general staff of “treason” for refusing, he said, to provide equipment to his mercenaries on the front lines in eastern Ukraine. While businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin has repeatedly criticized the Russian high command in the past, this time he specifically attacked Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, two of President Vladimir Putin’s top power figures.

The Russian Defense Ministry responded in the evening with a statement detailing the amount of ammunition supplied to “volunteer assault squads,” as the military calls Wagner’s men.

This tension also illustrates the difficulties faced by Russian forces three days before the anniversary of the start of the offensive into Ukraine, which should have ended quickly with the capture of Kyiv, but now bogged down.

On Tuesday, Yevgeny Prigozhin accused the high command of even forbidding Wagner soldiers to be given “shovels that allow them to dig trenches.”

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Paris monitors the “activity” of Chinese companies

“There are private Chinese companies whose activities we are closely monitoring,” said Catherine Colonna, answering a question about a possible strategic partnership between China and Russia on the public television channel France 5. Asked about the location of these enterprises, in particular, on Ukrainian soil , the Foreign Minister replied that they “were not necessarily on the ground”. The minister also assured that France “very diplomatically and quite clearly” expressed to Beijing its desire that China “not lend a hand to Russia”, also stressing that it prefers “to maintain China’s commitment to stability, which is beneficial to it in the long term.” “.

Westerners need to see more clarity about China’s position in New York, she said at a UN Security Council meeting on Feb. 24, the day that marks the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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