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Vladimir Putin’s most deranged hail mary in his battle in opposition to Ukraine appears to have now formally blown up in his face, because the chief of the non-public military he’s used to ship hundreds of inmates into the battlefield is now brazenly threatening leaders of the official Russian army.
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin provided a scathing response Tuesday to a video that surfaced days earlier during which Wagner mercenaries are seen cursing out Valery Gerasimov, Russia’s Chief of the Common Employees of the Armed Forces.
“To the Chief of the Common Employees: you're a fucking motherfucker. We have now nothing to combat with, we've got no rounds. The fellows are dying for us there, and we’re fucking sitting right here, not serving to. We want rounds, we wish to fuck everybody up. We're combating in opposition to all the Ukrainian military close to Bakhmut. The place are you? It’s about time you assist us. There’s nothing else to fucking name you besides motherfucker!” one of many fighters stated within the video.
Whereas Russian media had prompt the lads within the video may need truly been “Ukrainian nationalists” dressed up as Wagner fighters in a bid to undermine the battle, Prigozhin shortly shot down that conspiracy idea.
“There are not any [Ukrainian] nationalists in that infamous video,” Prigozhin stated in an audio message shared on the official Telegram channel of his Harmony Administration’s press service.
He went on to substantiate the lads have been fighters beneath his command—and backed up their message.
“The fellows requested me to go alongside, that whenever you’re sitting in a heat workplace, it’s laborious to listen to the issues on the frontline, however whenever you’re dragging the lifeless our bodies of your pals on daily basis, and seeing them for the final time, then provides are very a lot wanted. And also you need everybody to stir and at the least indirectly to consider how it's for these on the frontline,” Prigozhin stated.
“As for the issues which are sadly surfacing at each step… we'll remedy them, and drive them to be solved,” he stated.
Prigozhin’s feedback are simply his newest pictures fired at high Russian protection officers over their dealing with of the battle—and maybe the starkest signal but that the Kremlin has extra to concern from infighting than it could ever have achieved from Ukraine if Putin had not launched his invasion.