He mentioned his males would “receive new combat missions” sooner or later.
However, in his ultimate video, he mentioned that “if the military faces hardships,” the Wagner mercenaries who have been instrumental within the alleged seize of Bakhmut might keep within the town.
The chief proclaimed the seize of Bakhmut on Saturday following an intense 9 months of preventing.
If true, the 20,000 demise toll, suffered in simply 10 months, exceeds the professional Soviet losses sustained all over a decade of conflict in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989.
Prigozhin additionally prior to now mentioned his combatants have been exhausted and mentioned his males have been leaving for “field camps” to coach and leisure.
He added that the Russian protection ministry will likely be chargeable for Bakhmut.
The Ukrainians dispute Wagner’s declare that they have got taken over the town.
On Monday (May 22), Ukraine‘s deputy protection minister, Hanna Maliar, claimed Ukrainian troops nonetheless had regulate of constructions within the southwest of the town and mentioned troops have been running on flanking the town.
She mentioned: “Yesterday, the Ukrainian Armed Forces retained control of certain industrial facilities and private houses area in the southwestern area, the area where the aircraft [monument] is.”
The airplane monument, a Soviet MiG-17 fighter jet atop a prime concrete pedestal, is situated in Druzhba Square within the southwest of the town.
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