Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin has been ramping up his criticism of Russia's Defense Ministry in recent weeks, as the battle for Bakhmut intensifies.
Clashes between Russian and Ukrainian forces around Bakhmut have been increasing in ferocity as Moscow seeks to secure its first major battlefield victory since the summer of 2022. After days of speculation that Ukraine could pull its troops from the city, Ukrainian President
Prigozhin said in a statement Wednesday that Russia currently controls the entire eastern part of Bakhmut. "Wagner fighters have been conducting highly attritional frontal assaults on eastern Bakhmut for nine months and are likely not prepared to conduct a crossing of the Bakhmutka River to the Bakhmut city center at this time," the think tank assessed.
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