Founder of Wagner private mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin leaves a cemetery before the funeral of Russian military blogger Maxim Fomin widely known by the name of Vladlen Tatarsky, who was recently killed in a bomb attack in a St Petersburg cafe, in Moscow, Russia, April 8, 2023. REUTERS/Yulia Morozova
A Russian military unit had deserted one of the military positions near Bakhmut in east Ukraine, claimed Russia’s Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin on Tuesday.
“Today one of the units of the defence ministry fled from one of our flanks .. exposing the front,” said Prigozhin while repeating the threat that his mercenary group will leave the conflict zone if the Russian military did not step up and provide more ammunition.
