In the context of the bloody battle for Bakhmutwhich has been going on for months but has intensified in recent days, the leader of the Cluster Wagner he refuted the Russian narrative and revealed the true number of casualties on his side.
Once again, as a sample of its internship with sectors of the Army that respond to Vladimir Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin he admitted – indirectly – that the calculations spread by the West all this time have been more in line with reality than those numbers that Moscow seeks to spread.
In a video posted Tuesday night on his Telegram channel, Russia’s most powerful mercenary said that of the 50,000 men who were recruited in prisons throughout the country since the beginning of the conflict -in February 2022-, 20% have died. At this drop of 10,000 soldiers must be added other equivalent of officers who had voluntarily enlisted in Wagner’s ranks and who also died.
It should also be mentioned that another high percentage has defected Although there is no official figure for this group, since the decision to leave the battlefield entails a high risk to the lives of the combatants, who adopt a life of anonymity in the shadows to protect their integrity.
These figures accompany intelligence reports from USA and the allies who, for months, have maintained that Moscow has been left in a situation of total weakening, with its ammunition reserves at the limit and its ranks decimated.
The White House recently commented that Russia has already passed the barrier of 100,000 casualties in more than a year of conflict and that 20,000 of them were only since December. Meanwhile, the spokesman for the National Security Council of the United States, John Kirbyestimated that at least half -some 50,000 officers– would be from the paramilitary company.
The truth is that, as much as the Kremlin tries to maintain a lie, reality on the battlefield is difficult to fake and the power struggle between the militias has gotten out of hand.
Prigozhin announced that his troops will leave Bakhmut in the coming days to “reform, re-equip and rearm” after these 427 days of war that have been “hard combat work”.
“The Wagner Group will leave Artimovsk (Soviet place name for the city) between May 25 and June 1. I withdraw the units because with the lack of ammunition they are condemned to a useless death”, he commented in another video in which he assured that after “licking their wounds” they will be willing to “defend the Homeland again”.
Instead, Prigozhin said the positions will become the responsibility of the Russian Defense Ministry, which should be prepared to take over, he said. “If they can’t accept it, then the people involved will have to shoot themselves,” he continued.
With these words, the mercenary again exposed his dissatisfaction with the Russian commanderswhom he accuses of the bad results in the invasion of deprive your fighters of ammunition and, consequently, of the casualties in their ranks. He even claims that 80% of the deaths were due to the lack of official weaponry.
That is why in the video he opined that Shoigu should be replaced by Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev and that “he must be tried” for his management in the military leadership. Also, he added that the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin would not have accepted such a failure in the war and regretted the constant “blunders” that have occurred these months.
“We are in such conditions that we could lose Russia. Most likely, this scenario is not good (for the country). We have to prepare for an arduous war”, he continued, and concluded by warning that the failure of the offensive could lead to a revolution similar to the one the country faced in 1917.
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Source-www.infobae.com