“I have therefore made a decision to evacuate first of all children and parents, elderly people, disabled people and hospital patients.” “In the past few days, the enemy has stepped up shelling of settlements close to the frontline,” Balitsky said. It is believed that about 70,000 civilians could be taken away from the area. The Russian imposed governor Yevgeny Balitsky announced the move in anticipation of a Ukrainian offensive aimed at retaking the area. In a coded response, defence minister Sergei Shoigu has carried out an inspection of troop readiness for forces that are engaged in the war against Ukraine.Īuthorities in the Russian-occupied areas of Zaporizhzhia have begun evacuating villages near the frontline. The reference to defence minister Sergei Shoigu and chief of general staff Valery Gerasimov appeared to reignite the simmering feud between Prigozhin and the Russian establishment forces. Shoigu! Gerasimov! Where is the ******* ammunition?”. Prigozhin’s expletives were bleeped out in the video published by his press service, in which he yelled “We have a 70% shortage of ammunition. He asked defence chiefs to insert regular army troops in their place.Įarlier Prigozhin released a video showing him standing in a field of Russian corpses, personally blaming top defence chiefs for the losses suffered by his fighters in Ukraine. Prigozhin said they would pull back on 10 May – ending their involvement in the longest and bloodiest battle of the war – because of heavy losses and inadequate ammunition supplies. ![]() Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of Russia’s Wagner group mercenary force, said on Friday that his forces would leave the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut that they have been trying to capture since last summer.
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