Prigozhin said that the Ministry of Defense promised to issue weapons to Wagner PMC

PMC “Wagner” promised to give as many weapons and ammunition as needed to continue further operations in Artemovsk, said the founder of a private military company Yevgeny Prigozhin. Businessman’s words leads his press office.

“Tonight we received a combat order for the first time in all this time, in which, if we remove the secret data, the bottom line is this: they promise to give us ammunition and weapons as much as we need to continue further actions, they swear to us that everything that is necessary so that the enemy does not cut us off, ”said the entrepreneur.

According to him, Wagner was told that he could act in Artemovsk as he sees fit, and also “they give Surovikin as a person who will make all decisions” as part of the PMC’s military operations in cooperation with the Ministry of Defense.

On May 5, Prigozhin announced that on May 10, the fighters of the Wagner PMC would leave Bakhmut due to shell starvation and high personal losses. Later, he confirmed his readiness to transfer positions in Artemovsk to the Akhmat special forces units in response to such a proposal from the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.

may 7 businessman informedthat the tasks of the operation, which were carried out by PMC “Wagner” in Artemovsk, were fully completed. According to him, the goal of the Bakhmut meat grinder operation was not to capture the Bakhmut settlement, but to “grind the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and organize a respite for the Russian army to restore combat capability.” “The Bakhmut meat grinder has fully fulfilled its task,” he noted. Prigozhin also said that Russian forces control 95% of Artemovsk, and the remaining 5% “do not play any role.”