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The head of Russia's Wagner paramilitary group on Tuesday accused soldiers of Moscow's regular army of fleeing their positions in Bakhmut, a town where fighting is concentrated in eastern Ukraine, and accused the state of being unable to defend Russia.

Wagner's leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is in open conflict with the Russian military hierarchy, whom he accuses of not delivering enough ammunition to his fighters, who are on the front line in Bakhmut.

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  • Editor: JAVIER ESPINOSA (Special Envoy)Chasiv Yar (Ukraine)

'Moles' against Wagner's mercenaries in Bajmut

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"Today (Tuesday), one of the units of the Ministry of Defense fled from one of our flanks ... They abandoned their positions, they all fled," Prigozhin charged in a video posted on Telegram. "Why can't the state defend the country?" he said just as Russian President Vladimir Putin presides over a military parade in Moscow to commemorate the victory against the Nazis in 1945.

Last week Wagner's chief threatened to withdraw his men from Bakhmut by May 10 if the General Staff did not deliver the ammunition he requested. On Sunday, he claimed he received a "promise" from the army that they would receive sufficient supplies, which appeared to rule out a withdrawal of his fighters from Bakhmut.

But Prigozhin on Tuesday reiterated his threat of a withdrawal of his mercenaries because he said they do not have enough ammunition, saying Wagner only received "10 percent" of what he requested. In his statements, however, he qualified the possible withdrawal by stating that they will not leave Bajmut and that they will remain for a few days. "We are going to fight despite everything, we are going to manage," he said.

Prigozhin also accused the Russian military hierarchy of wanting to "deceive" Putin about the offensive in Ukraine. "If everything is done to deceive the commander-in-chief (Vladimir Putin)" the Russian people "will be furious if the war is lost," he said.

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