Posted on 02/21/2023 4:29:25 AM PST by Timber Rattler
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Russia's mercenary group Wagner, accused unspecified officials of deliberately denying his fighters sufficient ammunition as part of an ongoing rivalry between himself and parts of the Russian elite.
A onetime catering entrepreneur who once shunned the public spotlight, Prigozhin has assumed an ever more public role in Russian politics since the start of the war in Ukraine a year ago, with his Wagner Group spearheading Russia's months-long battle for the town of Bakhmut in Ukraine's Donetsk region.
In a seven-minute long audio message published on Monday by his press service, an apparently angry and emotional Prigozhin said he was required to "apologise and obey" in order to secure ammunition for his troops.
Speaking at times with a raised voice and occasionally swearing, he said: "I'm unable to solve this problem despite all my connections and contacts."
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Separately, Prigozhin's press service said in a post on Monday that the Wagner Group was having difficulty placing advertisements on television for recruiting volunteers for the conflict, and appealed to national and regional TV channels and to advertising agencies to support its recruitment campaign.
The White House said last week that the Wagner Group had suffered more than 30,000 casualties since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with about 9,000 of those killed in action. Some 90% of those killed in Ukraine since December were convicts, it said, a reference to Prigozhin's recruitment of prisoners to fight.
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Reuters, bastion of truth.
“In a seven-minute long audio message published on Monday by his press service, an apparently angry and emotional Prigozhin said he was required to “apologise and obey” in order to secure ammunition for his troops.
Speaking at times with a raised voice and occasionally swearing, he said: “I’m unable to solve this problem despite all my connections and contacts.””
no doubt the audio press release is a fake, too, right?
Ah more truth from Reuters. Truth truth truth. Posted according to RULES. Totally not propaganda.
Green T-shirt guy loves him some Brandon. Get 500 million bucks just like that, totally ok with Congress no doubt. V Nuland happy happy happy. Avenge the grandparents.
Wagner bad bad bad. Ukraine good good good.
Understand now. So grateful for MSM hypnotics.
You cannot discredit this story using the Reuters crutch.
One of many sources some Russian mil bloggers and audio clips of Prigozhin saying the same thing.
Hey, it was you Putinistas who became obsessed with posting standards and following the rules around here.
Don't like it, or the news source, then take it up with site ownership.
Hilarious. This story originates from the founder of the Wagner group himself — via a video he posted — and yet you have FReepers screaming that it’s propaganda. LOVE IT!
Yes...... that’s what you do.
Kill the messenger to avoid the message reality with the tired and worn-out Freeper band wagon rider tactic.
Develop dogmatic doctrine and ignorantly flog it continuously
Kadyrov next?
Whatever. Still doesn’t make Ukraine a winner. LOL
Why would Wagner need ammo?
They have already defeated Ukraine.
“Its over”
Look, obey the rules, ok?
Yes, it’s over.
Yes its all over except the fighting..
LOL!
Dunno about this as all the “Putin’s dying,” “Wagner is breaking up” stuff seems counter to what’s happening.
I don’t know how badly Prigozhin wanted to raid Bakhmut, but it seems Russia’s going to encircle it and starve it out and ship Wagner south to Zaporizhzhia and eventually Odessa. I think the real problem for Ukraine is if Russia starts to challenge Odessa and Zelensky realizes NATO is backing away from him. No one wants to be the leader of a land that now has no port on the sea.
Bahkmut is pretty much pointless, because there are 3,000-5,000 Ukrainian soldiers heavily entrenched there and it would be suicide to try to dig them out while they still have ammo and supplies. Best to just starve them. But then every successive town to the West becomes another Bahkmut, eating up valuable resources, time, and lives.
Mykoliav, Odessa, and Zaporizhzhia are his next targets.
As long as Ukrainians remain dopey enough to remain in trenches unlit Russians denazify them, yes, fighting continues.
I don’t even begin to understand how or why a private military force is allowed to form by a dictatorial head-of-state - the Russian military is effectively Putin’s private military, why does he need another?
Which means it aint over.
You said it was over months ago cause Zelenskys govt was going to collapse any day.
It hasnt
Thus, it aint over.
The war is over. Not every Ukrainian has been denazified but it’s over.
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