Reply To: Russian Tensions
TS “Which will be soundly turned in to fertilizer as Russia has a 10:1 artillery shell advantage.”
Such a shame that Russia isn’t sharing it with the Wagner mercenaries.
Prigozhin has said he is “knocking on all doors” for replenishing arms and ammunition for his forces.
Prigozhin said his men feared that they were being “set up” as scapegoats in case Russia lost its war in Ukraine.
“If we step back, we will go down in history as the people who took the main step to lose the war,” he said.
“And this is precisely the problem with the shell hunger [ammunition shortage]. This is not my opinion, but that of ordinary fighters…What if they [the Russian authorities] want to set us up, saying that we are scoundrels—and that’s why they are not giving us ammunition, not giving us weapons, and not letting us replenish our personnel, including [recruiting] prisoners,” Prigozhin said in a video
And the Wagner liaison officer is unceremoniously thrown out out of Russian army HQ.
This is not from NATO or Ukraine but from the horse’s mouth who Scott Ritter praised for never exaggerating.
To paraphrase Shakespeare, there is something is rotten in the state of Russia.