Wagner leader warns he will withdraw his troops from Bakhmut on May 10 due to lack of ammunition

The founder and owner of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has threatened to withdraw its units from the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, in the eastern Donetsk region, next Wednesday, May 10, due to a lack of ammunition and the large number of casualties in their ranks.

This was announced this Friday through a video published on his Telegram, addressing the Chief of the General Staff, Valeri Guerasimov, the Minister of Defense, Sergei Shoigu, the Commander-in-Chief, Vladimir Putin, and the people of Russia, alleging that with the lack of ammunition the mercenaries “are condemned to a useless death”.

your fighters it’s been nine months on this front and ensures that only they have 10% of the ammunition they need. Prigozhin had previously denounced that his units they lose about 100 men in Bakhmut daily and that the casualties would be five times less if the units received the proper amount of ammunition.

“On behalf of the Wagner fighters and their command that on May 10, 2023 we will be obliged to hand over the positions in the city of Bakhmut to the units of the Ministry of Defense and to relocate the fighters to the rear to lick our wounds” , has communicated.

However, he adds that since May 1, the military bureaucrats prevent them from accessing almost all types of artillery projectiles. Even so, he has shown their willingness to defend the Homeland again after “licking the wounds”. “The Russian people can count on us”, she has concluded herself.