Cut out the middle man. Prigozhin on the way out.
“Interesting: Yevgeny Prigozhin says this morning that his Wagner Group is no longer recruiting prisoners to fight in Ukraine. No information at all given as to why.”
“Interesting news. There have been reports that the Russian MoD is now recruiting prisoners. If the MoD takes over that source of manpower, Wagner’s size and capabilities will be reduced. One way for the MoD to reassert itself and minimize Wagner’s role.”
“Girkin believes that with Wagner terminating recruitment, its days are basically numbered. But given the state of the Russian armed forces, there will be no one to replace the death battalions who were the only ones to achieve any success in recent months.”
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1623570467045924864
“A Russian 2S3 Akatsiya 152mm self-propelled howitzer was destroyed by a Ukrainian M982 Excalibur strike in #Donetsk Oblast.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1623702986722537472