Last month, Vladimir Putin took a trip to the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut to tour one of the more contested pieces of territory in the ongoing war. The visit was mostly a photo op to show the supposed advances being made by the Russian military, supported by large numbers of civilian soldiers from the Wagner Group. The city had already been largely reduced to rubble by that point with only a small number of civilian residents remaining in the area. The owner of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, had boasted that they would fully retake Bakhmut by May 9th, the anniversary of Russia’s defeat of the Nazis in World War II. But they have made little progress since then, with the fighting settling into a stalemate and massive casualties being sustained on both sides. Now Prigozhin is placing the blame on Russia’s inability to give him enough ammunition to keep his soldiers in the fight and he’s threatening to pull his forces out of the area. (AP)Read More
Is the Wagner Group pulling out of Ukraine?
