
On Wednesday, February 22, the founder of the Wagner PMC Evgeny Prigozhin published a photograph of dozens of corpses of fighters of a private military company. According to him, they all died in one day. Prigozhin said that in their death the Ministry of Defense is guilty, which does not give out the PMC shells.
Prigozhin announced this in response to a request from the publication "The Voice of the People", which was published in the press service of the businessman.

Details. The published photo shows about 40 dead. “I lay out the photo: this is one of the places of gathering the dead, these are guys who died yesterday due to shell hunger of the so -called, they should have been five times less,” Prigozhin explained.
According to him, the photo was taken in the area of the city of Bakhmut. “We will not leave Bakhmut and I will simply die twice as much until all Wagnerians end. And when all the Wagnerians end, then, most likely, Shoigu and Gerasimov will have to take automatic machines, ”said Prigozhin.
Then the businessman said that the military independently transferred Wagner PMCs weapons, although this threatens them with a criminal case of embezzlement.
Reaction. On Wednesday, February 22, under the publications of the State Duma chairman Vyacheslav Volodin, comments publish comments in Telegram: “Give Wagner Munitions!” Every hour, several such records appear.
Comments with calls to issue PMCs ammunition appeared under the online broadcast of Vladimir Putin’s performance by the Federal Assembly and under the broadcast of a rally concert in Luzhniki.
Context. Evgeny Prigozhin has been criticizing the Ministry of Defense for several days for the fact that the agency does not give ammunition PMCs “Wagner”. On February 16, PMC gunners announced a lack of ammunition and asked the Ministry of Defense to provide them. On February 21, Prigozhin said that a private military company is not given ammunition due to a conflict with the military leadership.
To this, the Ministry of Defense replied that the businessman’s words “do not correspond to reality” and bring the “split” to the work of the military.
“All applications for submitting ammunition for assault units are carried out as soon as possible. So it would be so, ”the Ministry of Defense said.
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