The head of the Russian Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has threatened to withdraw from the Ukrainian city of Bakhmutone of the current epicenters of the ukrainian war, after lamenting a high number of casualties due to the fighting and the lack of supplies. At the moment, there is no news of the ammunition requested by the Russian mercenaries, who indicated that they needed “80,000 shells a day”, and “only” are asking for 4,000.

We will have to wait to see if Prigozhin’s is just a threat, or if he finally withdraws his troops from Bakhmut. What the Wagner boss did want to make clear is that Russia is not ready for the counteroffensive Ukrainian waiting for before mid-May. He has even recognized that his mercenaries could have their hours numbered: “Wagner will be history soon,” she said.

While, Moscow would be draining its reserves. The missiles launched early Friday at residential buildings they were manufactured in recent months, according to Ukraine.

For its part, Kyiv also asks the West for resources that, in the short term, they will not be able to deliver. However, Zelenski assures that they will go on the counteroffensive even if they don’t have the F16 planes yet. “We cannot postpone it any longer, so we will start before receiving them,” she said. And although he acknowledges that they need more preparation, he is also very optimistic, assuring that they are “capable of ending this war.”

This despite the fact that the Ukrainian counteroffensive, after announcing it so much, will not have a surprise effect. The Russians have spent months placing the so-called ‘dragon’s teeth’ along the entire front, concrete pyramids that will prevent the advance of mechanized forces.