The head of Russia’s shadowy mercenary force The Wagner Group is recommending a strategy in Ukraine once proposed by U.S. officials for the bogged-down war in Vietnam: Just declare victory and call it quits.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose fighters have fought alongside Russian regular troops even as he has criticized their performance in the nearly 15-month invasion, wrote on his blog over the weekend that the Kremlin should just declare its objectives achieved and call a halt to the fighting.
“For the [Russian] authorities and for society as a whole, today it is necessary to put a decisive end to the [war],” he wrote. “The ideal option is to … inform everyone that Russia has achieved the results that it planned, and in a sense we have actually achieved them,” Wagner Group and Russian military forces are both operating in the fiercest battle now underway in the war — the bloody struggle for control of the eastern Ukrainian industrial city of Bakhmut. Russian forces over the weekend reportedly continued to press ahead, but still have not been able to oust a determined Ukrainian defensive force in the city.
Mr. Prigozhin stepped up his criticism of rivals inside Russia over the conduct of the “special military operation” in Ukraine, accusing them of essentially undermining the war effort. In a national address Sunday to mark Orthodox Easter, Mr. Zelenskyy praised the nation’s unity in the face of Russian aggression.
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