Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin decried the loss to Ukrainian forces of a village near Bakhmut and said tactics used by regular Russian forces would lead to more setbacks within two weeks. | Reuters
“Now part of the settlement of Berkhivka has already been lost, the troops are quietly running away. Disgrace!” Prigozhin said in an audio message published by his press service.In an interview posted on Telegram later on Monday, Prigozhin said Russia’s defense ministry was duping the public and Kremlin leaders with its tactics.“The Ministry of Defense’s tactics are malicious and deceptive,” he said in the online interview.
“The Ministry of Defense’s main goal is to pretend that everything is ok and that we are advancing. In reality, what is happening now … will result in significant tactical defeats in two weeks’ time.” Prigozhin also denounced the Russian Defense Ministry’s latest account of fighting in the Donetsk region, which detailed big losses inflicted on Ukrainian forces, as “simply wild and absurd science fiction”.Denis Pushilin, the top Moscow-backed official in the Russian-occupied part of Donetsk region, which includes Bakhmut, told Russian state television the situation on the city’s flanks was “under control” but “very difficult”.
Prigozhin has urged Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and the chief of the general staff, Valery Gerasimov, to come to the front to rally the troops.Prigozhin has waged a public feud with Shoigu and Gerasimov for months, accusing them of failing to provide sufficient ammunition and support for Wagner in the field, and so causing it to suffer needlessly heavy losses.
In recent days, Prigozhin has further escalated the row, accusing regular forces under the command of the defense ministry of mining roads out of Bakhmut used by Wagner units.
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