“Wagner Mercenary Group Leader Asks for Chechen Fighters to Take Over Attack on Ukrainian City of Bakhmut”

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, has asked Moscow for Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and his fighters to take over the attack on the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, where fierce fighting continues.

Prigozhin: We have Bakhmut behind us, we have to storm another 2.5 km and the city will be taken

“Please issue a combat order before 00:00 on May 10 regarding the transfer of the positions of the Wagner paramilitary units in Bakhmut and its periphery to the units of the Akhmat battalion,” Prigozhin wrote in a letter to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

Earlier, Prigozhin reported that Ukrainian forces were holding only 2.5 square kilometers of the city.

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“Akhmat” is a military unit of the Russian Armed Forces, which was formed by Chechen fighters sent by the leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.

“If the big brother Prigozhin and “Wagner” leave, the General Staff will lose an experienced combat unit, and in its place will come the little brother Kadyrov and “Akhmat”. If things go like this, our fighters are now ready to move in and occupy the city. It’s a matter of hours. But I want us to capture the remaining two kilometers of the city not at the cost of the soldiers’ lives, but as a result of the mutual understanding, support, determination of the command and the fighters to carry out the order of the supreme commander of Russia Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin,” Kadyrov wrote yesterday in Telegram.