In his most outspoken criticism of the Kremlin so far, Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a video on Thursday night that the group lacked 70pc of the ammunition that they needed, and appealed directly to defence minister Sergei Shoigu and the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.The head of the Wagner mercenary group has said he may withdraw his troops from the Russian advance on Bakhmut as soon as May 10, as he launched a vicious attack on “Kremlin b-s” over lack of weapons supplies.There were also reports that those working for the occupation administration were told to stay at home “in case of explosions”. The exiled mayor of the occupied Ukrainian town of Melitopol, Ivan Fyodorov, said there was “panic” in Melitopol, with long lines at petrol stations. "Parents and children, disabled people and hospital patients will be given priority and moved further away from the front line." He said residents of the north of the region, including the town of Enerhodar that hosts a major nuclear power station, are encouraged to leave for safer areas: Mr Balitsky said in a statement that Ukrainian forces intensified shelling of the area in recent days. Yevgeny Balitsky, Russia-appointed head of the Zaporizhzhia region, announced an evacuation of residents from 18 towns close to the front line on Friday afternoon. The Ukrainian unit estimated that between 200 and 300 Russian soldiers were killed in their sector of the conflict.Russian forces have announced the evacuation of occupied areas of the Zaporizhzhia region in southern Ukraine which lie in the path of an anticipated counter-offensive. We used unmanned aerial vehicles to see where they were concentrated, which enabled us to use a HIMARS for a precision strike.” “Their reserves were too far away, and this allowed us to destroy the enemy even as we approached them. ‘Rollo’ said that the good weather conditions had given his forces “a chance to use all our might and show what we’re capable of” as they conducted a number of counterattacks against Russian forces, benefitting from weaponry donated by the US. “Actually, the unit he is bad-mouthing fought to the end, his Wagners were the first to flee.”
It was his units that fled, and our success is not due to the fact that they fled but the fact that we conducted a planned assault by circumventing and cutting them off. Ukrainian Armed Forces Storm Battalion Commander ‘Rollo’ told CNN: “Prigozhin is a liar, because the first to flee were Wagner. Wagner fighters were the first to flee in the fight for Bakhmut and the Russian units often criticised by the head of the mercenary group “fought to the end”, a Ukrainian commander involved in the successful counterattacks in the front line city has said.
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