Russia’s Wagner Group says receiving ammunition after threatened Bakhmut retreat
- The mercenary group’s chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin, had threatened to withdraw from the Ukrainian city due to a lack of supplies from Moscow
- ‘We have been promised as much ammunition and weapons as are needed to continue the fighting,’ Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Sunday
“We have been promised as much ammunition and weapons as are needed to continue the fighting,” Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said on his Telegram channel on Sunday. Protection of the group’s flanks by Russian regulars as it battles through the devastated city has also been guaranteed.
Prigozhin said that coordination between the mercenaries and Russian army units was under the command of General Sergei Surovikin. He described the general as “the only person with a general’s star who understands anything about fighting.”
There was no immediate response from the Kremlin.
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