The head of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhinhas confirmed that his mercenaries they will not abandon their positions in Bakhmut at midnight despite not having yet received all the ammunition promised by the Kremlin, because Moscow has made it clear that it would consider it a “treason”.

“We will not leave Artiomovsk [nombre ruso de Bajmut]we will insist a few more days, we will fight and then it will be seen,” he stated on Telegram, where he nevertheless denounced that, after the Moscow’s promise to provide them with all weapons and necessary ammunition, finally they have only received 10% of what was requested.

“They just blatantly fooled us”has criticized in this regard Prigozhin, who last Friday broke out against the Russian command and threatened to withdraw his mercenaries of Bakhmut in the face of a shortage of ammunition and the “senseless” death of his men there.

Now, he has explained that the day before “a combat order arrived in which it is clearly stated that the abandonment of the positions will be interpreted as a betrayal to the homeland”. “That was said to us, but if there is no ammunition we will abandon our positions and we will ask who the real traitor is, possibly the one who signed the order,” he nevertheless warned.

Prigozhin accuses a regular Russian unit of fleeing

Prigozhin has also denounced that, in the midst of these threats from Moscow, “one of the units of the Ministry of Defense has fled today from one of the flanks”, protected by the Airborne Forces. “Everything is being done to make the front collapse“, has reproached, referring to the unit of the regular Army that”fled and abandoned their positions“Leaving an area nearly two kilometers wide and 500 kilometers deep unprotected.

Furthermore, Wagner’s boss has claimed that Ukrainian forces are “ripping apart the flanks” in the direction of Bakhmut, where the Russian forces still have 2.36 square kilometers to take, and are regrouping in the neighboring region of Zaporizhia. “They will begin a counteroffensive in the near future.“, has warned.

The businessman has once again lashed out at the Russian military leadership in his confrontation with the Minister of Defense, Sergei Shoigu, and the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Valeri Guerásimov, stating that a “soldier should not die because of the utter stupidity of his leadership”. He maintained that the orders they receive on the ground are something “absolutely criminal.” “And that is why I want to emphasize that there is a crime called ‘destruction of the Russian people, treason against the homeland’, which is being committed “by a small group of people”, he stressed.

Prigozhin also mentioned, he has mentioned, he does not know what reasons the Russian leadership has for celebrating this Tuesday the victory day Soviet on Nazi Germany. “Happy Victory Day to all our grandparents. Why we are celebrating it is a big question,” she said.