Wagner Chief Again Threatens Bakhmut Pullout Over Supplies

In an expletive-laden video filmed in front of a field of corpses, Wagner mercenary group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin accused Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and the head of the army Valery Gerasimov of failing to supply his troops in Ukraine with enough ammunition. He said he will pull his forces out of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, where they’ve been fighting since late last year, on May 10 if he doesn’t get more munitions. That threat came in a separate written appeal to President Vladimir Putin published Friday, echoing a warning he issued late last month. “These are all Wagner guys who were killed today, the blood is still fresh,” Prigozhin said in the grisly video posted Friday on his Telegram channel, in which he claimed his troops lacked 70% of the ammunition they needed. “Due to the shortage of munitions, our losses are growing geometrically on a daily basis,” he said in the written appeal, which he later posted as a video in front of live soldiers. Wagner has already adv