Russia’s mercenary Wagner Group warlord accused a military brigade of fleeing its position near Bakhmut, an allegation aired as Russian President Vladimir Putin oversaw an annual Victory Day celebration.
“Today, one of the Russian Defense Ministry’s units ran from one of our flanks, abandoning its positions,” mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a video released on social media, per media translations. “All of them fled, exposing a section of the front that was nearly two kilometers long and 500 meters deep. Luckily, we managed to seal it.”Ukrainian military officials endorsed that claim with a wry statement of gratitude"for the publicity of our success at the front.
Putin used the annual commemoration of the end of the Second World War to reiterate his claim that his invasion of Ukraine continues a tradition of Russian opposition to Nazism. Prigozhin’s acerbic denunciations of Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and his colleagues ran contrary to that display."Instead of fighting, we constantly have all these intrigues,” he said. “We have a Ministry of Intrigue instead of a Ministry of Defense, and so our army is on the run.”
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