The presence of T-90M tanks in the Wagner arsenal around Bakhmut, first reported by pro-Russia war correspondent Alexander Simonov, deepens the weirdness. Wagner pilots fly Sukhoi Su-24 and Su-25 attack jets that technically belong to the Russian air force and evidently benefit from air force logistical support. What’s weird is that the Russian military and The Wagner Group clearly have close ties. Valery Gerasimov, chief of the Russian general staff. When Wagner artillery batteries around Bakhmut ran out of ammunition, they blamed Gen. It’s apparent that Prigozhin and Russian generals are bitter rivals. But that hasn’t stopped Wagner from dedicating almost all its forces in Ukraine to the Bakhmut sector-and losing many of them in repeated, failed human-wave assaults on the town’s entrenched Ukrainian garrison.Īnalysts have surmised that Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former sausage-vendor and close associate of Russian president Vladimir Putin who now is Wagner’s chief financier, views the Bakhmut battle as an opportunity to prove Wagner’s warfighting mettle and position the firm as an alternative to regular Russian forces in the Kremlin’s military establishment.
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