'[These men] came here as volunteers, and they're dying so you can get fat in your offices of rich mahogany,' Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a heated video.
, published a heated video aimed at Russia's defense minster and war commander on Thursday, blaming them and their lack of support for the deaths of his fighters.
Prigozhin's Wagner Group has been heavily involved in the fight for Bakhmut—a small industrial city with a pre-war population of 70,000, where Russian and Ukrainian forces have clashed since the summer of 2022. In recent weeks, Prigozhin has asked Russia's Defense Ministry to urgently deliver more ammunition.
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