Soledar: Cracks starting to look between Wagner Group and Russia’s Defence Ministry. Picture: Yevgeny Prigozhin/@Flash_news_ua
WAGNER GROUP boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has hit out at Russia’s Ministry of Defence after claims that Russian troops had captured Ukraine’s Soledar on Friday, January 13.
Cracks are starting to look between the Wagner Group and Russia’s Defence Ministry after Prigozhin fired pictures again at Russia’s MoD who claimed on January 13 that Russian troops had captured Ukraine’s salt mine city of Soledar.
“I learn with shock the report of the Ministry of Protection,” a Telegram message learn from Prigozhin press service.
“There was not a single paratrooper on Soledar, the paratroopers themselves verify this.”
He added: “Soledar was taken solely by the efforts of the fighters of the Wagner PMC.
“And there’s no have to offend the fighters by humiliating their advantage.
“You might be demotivating them.
“It’s essential to struggle, and to not measure with members and steal different individuals’s deserves.”
As famous, the claims from Russia’s Defence Ministry come after Prigozhin himself claimed that Wagner Group – Putin’s community of mercenaries and de facto personal military – his forces, appearing in coordination with Russian troops, had captured the town on January 6.
On January 10, he once more mentioned: “Items of Wagner PMC have taken management of all the territory of Soledar. A cauldron has been fashioned within the centre of the town, through which city battles are being waged. The variety of prisoners shall be introduced tomorrow”.
“I ought to wish to stress as soon as once more that no items aside from these of the Wagner Cheka had been concerned within the storming of Soledar”, he added on the time.
Nonetheless, this was denied by Russian officers who mentioned whereas there was a “constructive dynamic in progress”, individuals ought to look ahead to “official info” concerning the scenario.
Each studies had been denied by Ukraine, based on the AFP.
A spokesman for the Japanese Command, Serhii Cherevaty, reportedly mentioned on Ukrainian tv: “Fierce preventing continues to be occurring for Soledar.”
He added: “The armed forces of Ukraine are conserving the scenario below management in very troublesome situations.”
Cherevaty additionally acknowledged that Ukrainian troops had been preventing in opposition to “the very best (fighters) of (the Russian mercenary group) Wagner and different Russian particular forces”.
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