Wagnerians can leave positions under the bahmuth. Prigozhin blackmail the military leadership of Russia rebellion

Wagner's PMC will leave positions in Bakhmut and expose the front if the problem with ammunition supplies is not resolved. This was the head of the illegal formation of the PMC Wagner Evgeny Prigozhin said in an interview with the Russian "military commander" Semyon Pygov.

Prigozhin said that he wrote a letter to the head of the Ministry of Defense Sergei Shoigu, in which he said that if the problem with the supply of ammunition for PMCs would not be resolved until April 28 (that is, until yesterday), its formation would leave positions in Ukraine. On the eve of the expected advance of the Armed Forces (according to Prigogine’s forecast, it will begin no later than May 15), this can lead to catastrophic consequences for Russia, the head of the PMC added.

Thus, he actually moved to an open blackmail of the military-political leadership of Russia, notes the “policy of the country”.

Prigozhin also warned that PMC could come to an end. “Today we come to the fact that Wagner's PMC is ending. And Wagner's PMC will cease to exist after some short time, ”he said. On the replica of Pegov that such statements are demoralized by Russians, Prigozhin replied that he would repeat her again. Also, the head of the illegal formation sharply criticized not only the Russian command (scolded Shoigu for the recent dismissal of Deputy Minister of Defense Mikhail Minitsev, with whom the curator of the PMC, according to him, had good relations), but also the Russian army: according to him, the phrase "Airborne Forces does something in Bakhmut."

The representative of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Andrei Yusov noted that Prigozhin’s statements reflect the mood of the Russian military-political elite.

On April 14, Prigozhin said that “for the authorities and for society as a whole today it is necessary to put some kind of fat point” in full-scale aggression, and the ideal option, in his opinion, is “to announce the end of it, to inform everyone that Russia has achieved the results that it planned.”

In the past few months, Prigozhin openly went into conflict with the Russian Ministry of Defense, in particular, accused the military leadership of that it deliberately prevents the shipment of shells to his mercenaries. In addition, he was removed from the recruitment of prisoners in Russian colonies. It was the convicts that were the most important part of the tactics that allow the Wagnerians to advance in the Bakhmut area: they were the first to throw them to storm to identify the fire positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Losses in such advanced detachments reached 80%, wrote at the end of January CNN. After that, ISW reported that in the PMC of Wagner began the preparation of brigades formed from mobilized ones.

The Russian military launched the storm of Bakhmut in July last year and by April the current seized the central streets of the city. The main role in the assault on Bakhmut belongs to the detachments of the PMC Wagner. Its owner Evgeny Prigozhin repeatedly said that the mercenaries were executed for desertion. In particular, the prisoner of the colony in the Chelyabinsk region told “important stories” that Prigozhin declared this when he recruited the convicts there: “[Prigozhin] said that they have three sins, which were executed on the spot: desertion, looting and sexual relations with civilian, flora, fauna, animals.” The same businessman said the same when he recruited prisoners, presumably in one of the colonies of the Republic of Mari El.

The New York Times, with reference to Ukrainian commanders, said that for retreat or desertion, the Russians storming Bakhmut threatens the execution or imprisonment - the corresponding orders of Russian officers were recorded in radio intercepts. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that in the Bakhmut direction “in order to prevent the possible desertion of mobilized from the front or sabotage”, the Russians launched a detachment of approximately 200 police officers of the Chechen regiment “Akhmat”. At the same time, the source of “important stories”, close to the Russian military, noted that he had no information about the formation of special detachments: during the fighting, the warriors fall under “friendly fire” - the shelling from their units, which are deeper in the line of defense and are sometimes incorrectly aware of the movement on the front line.