The head of the Russian armed Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, revealed - in a press interview - pictures of the dead members of his group, and said that they died due to a lack of ammunition, and otherwise they would still be on the battlefields.
And the French newspaper Le Monde stated - in a report - that the step that Prigozhin took comes in the context of his repeated requests to the Ministry of Defense to supply him with multiple missiles and ammunition, as the dialogue between him and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reached the point of insulting and insulting.
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And Le Monde explained that an audio recording was published on a channel on the Telegram communication site, in which President Wagner was heard confirming that half of his soldiers are being killed "because some military personnel do not want to carry out their duties, they prevent us from achieving victory in this war, and they work for the enemy and help him break Russia's back." You have no conscience."
The French newspaper said that the number of Wagner soldiers fighting in Ukraine ranges between 30,000 and 50,000.
She added that due to Wagner's involvement in military operations in multiple countries - including Ukraine - Prigozhin's shares rose, and he became one of the most prominent names of the Russian elite surrounding President Putin.
But his exciting upward trajectory is witnessing significant problems thanks to the Ukrainian resistance, and because of the internal animosities left behind by his rapid climb to power.
Prigozhin appeared on his Telegram channel from the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, encouraging his soldiers to fight, and he criticized Defense Minister Shoigu, accusing him of not daring to take such a step.
He was not satisfied with that - as Le Monde explains - but was keen to assert publicly that "hundreds of thousands of soldiers died on the front," while official figures indicate that the number of Russian deaths in the war on Ukraine reached only 6,000.
It should be noted that the disclosure of military losses is a crime punishable by Russian law.
Among the problems that Wagner faces is its need for soldiers to preserve the Ukrainian lands it controls, knowing that the Ministry of Defense is also resorting to recruiting prisoners, which is the main source of recruitment for Wagner, according to Le Monde.