PMC “Wagner” will leave Artemovsk (the Ukrainian name of the city is Bakhmut) on May 10, transferring positions to units of the Ministry of Defense. According to RBC, this is stated in the appeal of the founder of PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin to the Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, President Vladimir Putin and the people of Russia.
The appeal was published in Telegram by the press service of the businessman.
“On May 10, 2023, we are forced to transfer positions in the Bakhmut settlement to units of the Ministry of Defense and withdraw the remnants of Wagner PMCs to rear camps in order to lick their wounds. I am withdrawing Wagner units from Bakhmut, because in the absence of ammunition, they are doomed to a senseless death, ”the appeal says.
According to him, the Bakhmut Meat Grinder operation “distracted a huge amount of enemy forces and enabled the Russian army to take advantageous defensive lines and continue the offensive.”
Prigozhin’s press service also published his video message. In it, he stated that the PMC received no more than 30% of the needs for shells: “Therefore, our losses were much higher than they should have been, but we were moving forward.”
According to him, now the units receive “no more than 10%” of ammunition. “To bear without ammunition losses in Bakhmut, useless and unjustified, my guys will not. Therefore, from May 10, we are leaving the village of Bakhmut, ”said the businessman.
The Kremlin did not comment on Prigozhin’s appeal. “Of course we saw it in the media. But I can’t comment on this, because it concerns the course of a special military operation, ”said Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the president.
Source: Rosbalt
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