Videos | Wagner Group announces that it is withdrawing from Bakhmut, but Ukraine does not believe them

He wagner group announced today that on May 10 it will withdraw its mercenaries from the Ukrainian stronghold of bakhmut in the midst of an open war with the Russian Ministry of Defense over ammunition shortages, but kyiv He does not quite believe it and suspects that it is a ploy.

Prigozhin announces that the Wagner Group will withdraw from Bakhmut on May 10th.

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“I remove the Wagner units from bakhmut because in the absence of ammunition they are condemned to a senseless death, he assured Yevgeny PrigozhinWagner bossin a statement addressed, among others, to the head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putinand the Russian people.

bakhmutthe scene since August 2022 of the longest and bloodiest battle of the war, is currently the main objective of the Russian military campaign in Ukraine.

At this point, the mercenaries and ex-convicts recruited by Prigozhin They have taken virtually the entire city, where the Ukrainian defenders would control only 2.5 square kilometres.

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WITHDRAWAL OR ULTIMATUM

“On May 10, 2023 we will be forced to hand over the positions in the city of B.tojmut to the units of the Ministry of Defense and to transfer the combatants to the rear to lick our wounds”, points.

Prigozhin accuses the “military bureaucrats” of preventing him from taking bakhmut coinciding with the “sacrosanct” Victory Day over Nazi Germany (May 9), by ensuring that his men have only 10% of the ammunition they need.

“By not giving us ammunition, you are not depriving us of victory, you are depriving Russia of victory.” proclaimed the head of the group, who has already accused the Minister of Defense in the past, Sergei Shoiguand the chief of the General Staff, Valeri gerasimovto trydestroy” his private army.

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Therefore, ask gerasimov sign an order datedl “transfer of the positions held by Wagner In the town of bakhmut to units of the Russian Army.

The duma either Low camera Russian intensified in 2022 the penalties for desertion and voluntary surrender in times of war, martial law or mobilization with sentences of up to 15 years in prison.

The wagnerites They had their baptism of fire in Ukraine in March 2022 and last January they starred in the town of solder (Donetsk) the only Russian success on the battlefield.

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THE RUSSIAN MILITARY TOP IS GUILTY

The message is preceded by a video on his Telegram channel in which Prigozhin repeatedly insults gerasimov and shoigubefore several rows with dozens of corpses of mercenaries lying on the ground.

“There are elementary calculations. Given the usual standard of ammunition, the dead would have been five times less. They came as volunteers and died for you to live the good life in their mahogany wood offices. Take note”he assured.

Prigozhin He maintains that his units lose about 100 men a day due to a lack of bullets and projectiles.

“Tens of thousands of people weigh on the conscience of those who did not give us ammunition and those are shoigu and gerasimov. His lack of professionalism is killing tens of thousands of Russians. and that is unforgivable”, he denounced in a third video, in which he promised to settle responsibilities among the culprits.

According to information from the activists and the independent press, given the excessive influence of Prigozhinhe Kremlin He gave the go-ahead to the creation of new private military companies, which would have recruited 10,000 men in Russian prisons in April alone.

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UKRAINE DOES NOT BELIEVE IT

As soon as the statement was made public, Ukrainian military intelligence expressed deep mistrust.

“Prigozhin will not withdraw his Wagnerites from Bakhmut. That statement is related to the fact that he cannot fulfill another of his promises: to take Bakhmut by May 9. That is why he now tries to find the guilty, since he understands that he cannot keep his word ”, said his spokesman, Andrii Chernyak.

Meanwhile, the head of the Eastern Group of the Ukrainian Army, Serhiy Cherevatydenied that Wagner suffers from “ammunition hunger”, since only in the last day Bakhmut and its surroundings were the object of more than 500 enemy artillery attacks.

“The enemy is trying with all its might to gain control of Bakhmut before May 9.”asserted Hanna MalyarDeputy Minister of Defense.

Source: Elcomercio

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