2023-04-30 19:59:21
Should Russia fear the Ukrainian counter-offensive? For the head of Wagner, yes. The boss of the Russian private military group Evguéni Prigojine, affirmed this Sunday that his men, who fight in particular in Bakhmout, lacked ammunition and warned that a Ukrainian counter-offensive could represent “a tragedy” for Russia.
“We (Wagner) only have 10-15% of the ammunition we need,” Wagner’s boss said in an interview with pro-Kremlin war correspondent Semyon Pegov. Evgeny Prigozhine, who blamed senior Russian military officials for the shortages, said he expected a Ukrainian counteroffensive around mid-May. “This counter-offensive could become a tragedy for our country,” he warned.
Counter-offensive preparations completed
The Wagner group was on the front line in the fighting around the town of Bakhmout. Yevgeny Prigojine is in open conflict with the Russian military hierarchy, which he accuses of not knowingly delivering enough ammunition to his men and has publicly attacked Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on several occasions.
Ukraine said this week that its preparations for a counter-offensive were coming to an end. This Sunday, the governor of the Russian region of Briansk bordering Ukraine announced that a Ukrainian bombardment having targeted a Russian village had left four dead and two wounded. The day before, a drone attack caused a fire in an oil depot in Sevastopol, the home port of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, according to the authorities of the peninsula annexed by Russia.
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