Prigozhin, leader of Russia's Wagner Group mercenary force, said they would withdraw on May 10 - ending involvement in the longest battle of the war - due to heavy losses and inadequate ammunition supplies. Russia's Wagner boss threatens Bakhmut pullout:
Chief of the General Staff of the armed forces of the Russian Federation -Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of Russia's Wagner Group mercenary force, said in a dramatic announcement on Friday that his forces would pull out of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut that they have been trying to capture since last summer.
"I'm pulling Wagner units out of Bakhmut because in the absence of ammunition they're doomed to perish senselessly." Wagner has been spearheading Russia's attempt to capture it and Prigozhin said his men had taken all but 2.5 square kilometres of the city which he said was 45 square kilometres in total.
In another video issued later, he accused Shoigu and Gerasimov of being responsible for "tens of thousands of Wagner dead and injured" and said he would hold them to account. It was the second dramatic development in the space of three days, after Moscow accused Ukraine of sending drones to the Kremlin in the early hours of Wednesday in an attempt to kill President Vladimir Putin. Kyiv denied it, and the United States dismissed Kremlin claims it was behind the incident as "lies".
"If, because of your petty jealousy, you do not want to give the Russian people the victory of taking Bakhmut, that's your problem."
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