Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin urged Russia's defense minister and chief of the General Staff to 'come to the front.'
, said the city is no longer under Russian control, and that troops under the leadership of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov are fleeing.
The Russian paramilitary group's chief made his remarks in an audio message published by his press service on Monday. He said on May 25 that Wagner mercenaries had begun their retreat from the embattled city of Bakhmut, and that they would completely withdraw by June 1, giving way to regular Russian units.
A member of the Ukrainian armed forces is pictured with a drone in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast on May 23, 2023. Days after forces from Russia's Wagner Group withdrew from Bakhmut, its chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said the Ukrainian city is no longer under Russian control.
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