Russian military command over the past few months have worked to limit Wagner's influence and prominence in Moscow and Ukraine by cutting back on munition deliveries.
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Yevgeny Prigozhin, left, shows Russian President Vladimir Putin, around his factory which produces school meals, outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Sept. 20, 2010.as the war in Ukraine has continued and his forces started to feel their losses. Prigozhin, who made his money through food services and contracts to cater the Kremlin, claimed he founded Wagner to support the 2014 mission in Donbas.
The military command also ended a controversial program that allowed Wagner to recruit almost endlessly from Russia’s prisons. "This can be likened to high treason in the very moment when Wagner is fighting for Bakhmut, losing hundreds of its fighters every day," he in March.
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