The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that if Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner PMC, decides to withdraw his troops from Artemovsk (Ukrainian name Bakhmut), he and his fighters are ready to move to the city and occupy it. He reported this in his news telegraph channelCommenting on Prigozhin’s statement that the PMC will leave Artemovsk on May 10 due to a shortage of ammunition.
“If the elder brother Prigozhin and Wagner leave, the General Staff will lose an experienced combat unit, and the younger brother Kadyrov and Akhmat will take their place in Artemovsk. If the scenario is still like this, our warriors are ready to advance and occupy the city. “This is a matter of hours,” Kadyrov wrote.
At the same time, he stressed that he would not want the rest of the city to be taken by the Russian army at the cost of their lives, “the result of mutual understanding, support, command and determination of the fighters”. Follow the order of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In his opinion, it is unpleasant for him that the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Defense does not comment or meet with the Wagner leadership to take any decision on this issue.
He also expressed hope that Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu would heed the call to resolve the situation with ammunition, and that the General Staff would be ordered to “go to the ground and deal with it”.
an expert before suggestedHe said that Prigozhin’s announcement of leaving Bakhmut could be a bluff to deceive the Ukrainian Armed Forces.