Luhansk city could be step towards launching offensives on Russian-held Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk
, who is believed to have recruited thousands of Russian convicts to help storm the city. Prigozhin has previously criticised the Russian defence ministry for its performance in Ukraine and has lauded Wagner as the country’s most capable fighting force.
“You are … the damn devil. We have nothing to fight with, we have no shells,” one of the men is heard saying. “The guys asked me to convey that when you sit in a warm office, the problems of the frontline are hard to hear,” Prigozhin said in a statement, in an apparent dig at the country’s top military command.
“After yesterday’s well-known events, we see that the planes are dispersed there, namely strategic aviation … Of course, a certain number of aircraft still remain there, but many of them have already been relocated to various airfields,” Col Yuriy Ignat, the chief spokesperson for the Ukrainian Air Force Command, told Ukrainian media.
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