War correspondent Alexander Sladkov said that the private military company (PMC) “Wagner” delivered more than 2,500 tons of ammunition of various calibers to the Russian Ministry of Defense. wrote about him telegraph channel.
“PMC” Wagner “, according to my information, has delivered to our army in the NMD zone more than 2,500 tons of ammunition of various calibers,” he said.
According to him, this number includes large ammunition for artillery and rocket artillery.
Sladkov said that the PMC has two warehouses in the Rostov and Voronezh regions, which are now under the control of the Russian defense ministry. According to Sladkov, there were more than 1,100 tons of ammunition in Voronezh.
Sladkov, “What are the words of Yevgeny Prigozhin worth mentioning that they did not give ammunition?” asked.
Alexander Kots, military correspondent of Komsomolskaya Pravda, telegraph channel Among the projectiles delivered by Wagner, he explained that there are shells for rocket and artillery of various types and calibers, high-explosive fragmentation, cumulative and sub-caliber shells for tanks, shells for grenade launchers and rocket-propelled flamethrowers, more than 500 tons. mines, more than 5 million small arms ammunition and about 88 thousand grenades of all types.
In May, Evgeny Prigozhin, founder of Wagner PMC complained on the alleged shortage of ammunition and requested them from the Ministry of Defence.
It was learned that the army had previously. reinforced Defense of the Southern Military District (SMD) headquarters after the PMC “Wagner” rebellion.