Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin said he's being punished for making public appeals for more ammunition.
for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, which has been ongoing for months. Prigozhin in recent weeks has made multiple public pleas for Russia's formal military to provide his men with more ammunition to continue the assault on Bakhmut.
"In order to stop me from asking for ammunition, they turned off all special [government] phone lines in all of the offices and [Wagner] units ... and blocked all [my] passes to the agencies responsible for making decisions," Prigozhin said on his Telegram channel, according to a translation from The Moscow Times.
A file photo of Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin pictured in June, 2016, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Prigozhin has become"increasingly bold" in his attacks against the Russian Defense Ministry, reported the Institute for the Study of War.Prigozhin reportedly added,"Now I can only ask [for more supplies] through the media and ... most likely will be doing just that."
The Thursday message from Prigozhin is the latest public sign of a rift between the mercenary boss and Russian officials, following his claims on Monday that a Wagner representative was denied access to Russia's military headquarters in Ukraine., but the Institute for the Study of War think tank in January said the two drifted apart after Prigozhin made repeated statements that condemned Russia's Ministry of Defense.
The issues began earlier this year when Prigozhin said his Wagner troops were behind the capture of Soledar, a city in Ukraine's Donetsk region that was the site of a much-publicized conflict between Russian forces and Ukrainian President
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