The founder and owner of the Wagner Group security company, the Russian oligarch Yevgeni Prigozhin, would be accelerating the withdrawal of his men from the Ukraine, after the Russian Armed Forces have been delaying sending ammunition and more troops to the fronts where they are.

He Prigozhin’s malaisea former ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, comes from afar, after being banned from his mercenary organization recruit in Russian prisons as it had been doing until now.

Recently, Prigozhin went so far as to describe the Russian military high command as “traitors” because supposedly they would not be listening their demands for more men and ammunition, at a time when the group continues to fight Ukrainian forces around the city of Bakhmut.

In retaliation, Prigozhin, whose independence is not being liked in the Kremlin, plans to withdraw from Ukraine and resume group activities in Africawhere it has several open fronts in collaboration with the authorities of some countries of the continent, according to sources consulted by the Bloomberg agency.

Despite months of fighting, Ukrainian forces are repelling Wagner’s attacks to take over Bakhmut, a scenario longed for by Moscow as it is the center from which the supplies that kyiv sends to its troops on the eastern front depart.

The military commanders appear to have succeeded in casting doubts on Putin about the Wagner’s alleged military supremacy, after the Russian president transferred to the Ministry of Defense the exclusivity of being able to recruit among the country’s prisons.

Since the start of the invasion of Ukraine just over a year ago, Prigozhin had unlimited access to Russian prisons to recruit prisoners who were willing to go to war in exchange for their release should they survive at least six months.

However, many of them did not have the necessary military preparation to undertake a company of this magnitude. According to the British Intelligence Service, half of the 40,000 prisoners who were recruited have died.

Last week, Wagner announced a recruitment campaign in sports centers in almost fifty Russian cities, with which they hope to register some 30,000 new volunteers.