“Prigozhin’s Letters to Highest Army Command on Lack of Ammunition & “Grenade Hunger” in Bachmoet”

In his anger about the lack of ammunition, Prigozhin regularly addresses his letters to the highest army command, as the more than 150 letters show. At the beginning of May, as the fighting in Bachmoet was approaching its final phase, he wrote a letter to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Then come and see for yourself, he basically hisses at the Russian minister, if the desired arms deliveries fail to materialize.

The letters about the lack of ammunition have frequently made the news in recent times. Every time Wagner boss Prigozhin denounced the lack of grenades, it made the world news. The terms he uses have also become commonplace. Bachmoet is a ‘meat grinder’ through which many thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are killed. He can inflict many more casualties if his men do not suffer from ‘grenade hunger’, the term used to describe the shortage of ammunition.