Prigozhin also said on Sunday that Russia’s defence ministry had assigned Gen Sergei Surovikin to work alongside Wagner. Ukrainian troops have been pushed back in recent weeks but have clung on in the city to inflict as many Russian losses as possible before Kyiv’s planned big push against the invading forces along the 620-mile (1,000km) frontline. The battle for Bakhmut, which Russia sees as a stepping stone to capturing other cities in Ukraine’s Donbas region still beyond its control, has been the most intense of the conflict, costing thousands of lives on both sides in months of grinding warfare. We have been promised that everything needed to prevent the enemy from cutting us off will be deployed on the flank.” We have been promised as much ammunition and weapons as we need to continue further operations. However, in an audio message posted on his Telegram channel on Sunday, Prigozhin said: “Overnight we received a combat order, for the first time in all this time. Prigozhin, who has publicly heaped scorn on Russia’s defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, and army top brass over their conduct of the war in Ukraine, said officials in Moscow consumed by “petty jealousy” were holding back crucial supplies to his men.
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