2023-05-06 22:17:54
The tasks of the private military company “Wagner” in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) have been fully completed, according to the founder of PMC Evgeny Prigozhin. The fighters will be sent to training camps to restore their combat capability, additional training, and will stay there “until the threat to Russia and Russian citizens disappears as part of this military operation.”
According to the businessman, the “Bakhmut meat grinder” operation was designed mainly not to capture the city, but “to grind the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and organize a respite for the Russian army to restore combat capability.” “The Bakhmut meat grinder has fully fulfilled its task,” Mr. Prigozhin said in a comment, cited by his press service on Telegram.
According to the entrepreneur, in Artemovsk “almost 95% of the territory was taken.” He believes that the remaining 5% “does not play any role for the so-called development of success and the campaign of the” Red Army “further to the West.” “Two square kilometers do not affect the course of the military operation in any way,” Mr. Prigozhin noted.
The founder of PMC “Wagner” once more announced the shortage of shells and criticized the decisions of the Ministry of Defense. He also said that PMC units refused to enter the structures of the Ministry of Defense.
On May 5, Mr. Prigozhin announced that PMC Wagner would leave Artemovsk on May 10 due to shell shortage and high personal losses. According to him, according to the original plan, the PMC was supposed to take the city by May 9th. Yevgeny Prigozhin noted that the fighters had to take 2 sq. km out of 45 sq. km. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, sent a letter to President Vladimir Putin asking him to relocate Akhmat units to Artemovsk.
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