Wagner's frustrations are growing as they face heavy casualties in Bakhmut, but waves of near-suicidal attacks launched by the mercenary group are proving to be a nightmare for Ukrainian forces
that Ukraine was fortifying its positions in the city with tens of thousands of military personnel ready to thwart a possible counterattack.
Russia-backed forces have been stationed at multiple points around Bakhmut but they are taking heavy casualties at the hands of Ukraine's defence forces. The situation has left Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin frustrated as he has begun accusing Russian army of withholding weapons supply to his mercenaries and making them easy targets on the frontline. A Russian victory of Bakhmut is seen to serve as further seizure of Ukraine's territory and it will be the first gain since last summer.
"For now, we are trying to figure out the reason: is it just ordinary bureaucracy or a betrayal," Prigozhin said, noting that Wagner was yet to receive the necessary supplies and military back-up as promised by the Russian military leadership in February. Igor Girkin, a former Federal Security Service officer, who led Russian-backed forces in Donetsk region in 2014,at Prigozhin, accusing him of harbouring political ambitions that reflected his "psychopathy" and harmed the "common cause of victory over Ukraine."
Prigozhin had earlier said that his representatives were denied access to the headquarters of Russia's military in Moscow, a charge the Kremlin
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