Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Sunday that the mercenary fighters would receive 'as much ammunition and weapons as we need.'
and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov likely"effectively blackmailed" the Russian Defense Ministry into funneling resources to paramilitary fighters on the frontlines in eastern Ukraine, according to a new assessment.
On Saturday, Prigozhin said in a statement that at midnight on May 10, Chechen special forces would replace Wagner fighters in the fiercely contested Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, which is when the Russian oligarch said Wagner forces"will completely exhaust our combat potential."and that his fighters were"ready to advance" to the ruined Donetsk city.
, Prigozhin said the former commander of Russian forces in Ukraine General Sergey Surovikin was to be an intermediary between the Russian Defense Ministry and the Wagner forces.could not independently verify Prigozhin's statements and has contacted the Russian Defense Ministry, which has not officially commented, via email.
Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin shows Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin his school lunch factory outside Saint Petersburg on September 20, 2010. Prigozhin and Kadyrov"likely effectively blackmailed" the Russian Defense Ministry through their public statements on Chechen and Wagner troops in the contested Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, according to the Institute for the Study of War think tank.
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