Wagner boss fumes that Russian brigade 'fled' from Bakhmut areaĪnd then there was a more cryptic comment that raised eyebrows on social media. Prigozhin continued his public criticism of Moscow's military leadership. We haven’t earned that victory one millimeter.” “Victory Day is the victory of our grandfathers. And a counteroffensive is about to begin,” he said Tuesday. “Today they are tearing up the flanks in the Artemovsk direction, regrouping at Zaporizhzhia. “Those territories that were liberated with the blood and lives of our comrades … are abandoned today almost without any fight by those who are supposed to hold our flanks.”Įarlier in the week, Prigozhin marred Russia’s May 9 Victory Day celebrations with public and profanity-laced criticisms of the country’s top military brass. “The situation on the western flanks is developing according to the worst of the predicted scenarios,” Prigozhin complained in an audio message released Thursday. In recent days, the boss of the Russian private military company Wagner seems to have gone into social-media meltdown, flooding his Telegram channel and other accounts with ever-more outrageous and provocative statements.Īmong other things, Prigozhin revealed an apparently humiliating battlefield setback for Russia, fulminating this week that a Russian brigade had “fled” around eastern city of Bakhmut, threatening his troops with encirclement by the Ukrainian forces.
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