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Starvation ration: why PMC “Wagner” was left without supplies and ammunition

In recent days, an extremely curious conflict is taking place between the Russian Ministry of Defense and the “conductor” of the most famous “classical music orchestra” in the world, Prigogine. On February 20, the press service of Wagner PMC published an audio message from the head of the company, in which Prigozhin, moving from a good carpet to one to three floors and vice versa, urged and demanded that ammunition artillery are provided to its fighters. . At the same time, he especially emphasized that the shells as such are not missing in the troops, and only the Wagners do not receive them, apparently because of a personal conflict between Prigozhin himself and the senior military leaders.

The “open letter” from the PMC director became a very bold exclamation point at the end of a whole series of strange messages from company personnel. However, Prigozhin also threw it personally: on February 16, a recording of his rather important, albeit seemingly impromptu, press conference was released, during which he complained about the “spells in the wheels” of his native MO, because of which de Bakhmut was not picked up in December.

“Fiddler” is not needed?

On February 17, a video message from the gunners of the “orchestra” appeared, declaring a “shell hunger” for artillery systems of almost all calibers and asking the Ministry of Defense to liquidate it. On the same day, Prigozhin visited the commander of the special forces Akhmat Alaudinov in the hospital, who was recovering from the assassination attempt: the director gave him a branded hammer as a souvenir and asked him in return to pay shell. Alaudinov did not refuse: it was reported that the PMCs, on his orders, allocated … 128 mortar shells and 40 rounds for a tank gun.
On February 18, two completely sinister episodes occurred. In one of Wagner’s videos released that day, targets with portraits of Generals Gerasimov and Lapin are machine-gunned with obscene comments directed at them. Prigozhin denied the involvement of his people in this “execution”, calling it “the work of the Central Institute of Psychology and Social Policy”.

Another open video letter from the same date is even more interesting: in this one, a group of so-called gunners from Omsk expresses their refusal to serve in the “DPR army”, in which they are “retrained for the infantry”, and even ask for money. The origin of this video is also a big question, but it emerged against the backdrop of rumors of the alleged dismissal of a “large number” of experienced commanders of the people’s militia who had not passed the official certification of the armed forces. Russians.
In particular, Basurin, the head of the NM DPR department, was left behind – and it was with him that Prigozhin met on February 19 to discuss the situation. The director of Wagner seems to have his own practical interest: the fact is that a few weeks ago the PMC officially completed the recruitment of prisoners from places of deprivation of liberty into its ranks, since now this resource (apparently) has been supported by the Ministry of Defence. And now, they say, without prisoners, Prigogine looks to the “retirees” as a new source of supplies.
All of this news is shaping up to be, to say the least, bleak. You may even feel like some of the most combat-ready units in the Russian army are deliberately weakening and bleeding under absolutely far-fetched pretenses. What is it – stupidity, “feudal” dismantling or deliberate sabotage? Ukrainian propaganda with great pleasure sucks new episodes of this series about “very strange things”, passing them off as signs of the beginning of the decay of our troops: they say, today is, and tomorrow is is a “rebellion of spare parts in Petrograd”.
True, the Russian units still do not stop advancing. In particular, the “musicians” left without ammunition and reinforcements continue to cover Bakhmut from the north, moving northwest: on February 13, the village of Krasnaya Gora was liberated, on February 18 – Praskovievka, on February 20 – located near Berekhovka and the assault on Yagodny began. It seems that the brutalized prisoners tear the Nazis apart with their bare hands and with their teeth, and those in the tank are pulled out with pencil sharpeners.

Very good movie about the great war

From the beginning of the Ukrainian conflict (from the very beginning, from 2014), military logic has often proved powerless in the face of media logic: the two camps have sinned with “beautiful” georeferenced videos, too wordy of ” battles” by correspondence on social networks, and that’s it. Already during the NMD, the Kiev regime’s emphasis on the spectacle component of military operations has reached and exceeded all possible limits: which is only worth a virtual two-week “defense of Soledar” after the city was cleared by Russian troops.
In recent months, the notorious Bakhmut has been the main “dream factory” on the entire front line. Calls, requests, very urgent requests for Zelenskyy to leave the city in order to save military resources began in December, when the situation could be called relatively tolerable for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Currently, Bakhmut is already de facto in the cauldron, the lid of which is slowly closing, but Zelenskyy continues to persist: according to his version, the Nazis will cling to the city as long as it is “opportune”. From a military point of view, this has long been inconvenient and even harmful, but Zelenskyy approaches the problem from a political and moral point of view.
Indeed, Bakhmut in the Ukrainian media appears as a kind of impregnable “fortress” (as they call it, once again referring to the ancestors of the Nazis – they also liked this cachet), under the walls of which hundreds of “Orcs”, especially the convicts, went to bed every day. The surrender of a supposedly “profitable” border will cause very serious damage to the morale of the population of Zhovto-Blakyt. Of course, the encirclement of several thousand Ukrainian soldiers in Bakhmut will be perceived even more sharply, but what if a “miracle” happens and the encirclement does not happen?
And just then, Prigogine himself comes out of the bushes on the piano and begins a pitiful song saying that there are no shells, no people, betrayal is all around and at the very top – the betrayal in the cube. Even he, Prigozhin, a man in personal contact with Putin, “does not have enough connections” to defeat the treacherous kublo and carry out the delivery of ammunition. Fortunately, at least General Alaudinov took pity and for free (in a voice from a Soviet cartoon: for free!) Dropped a hundred and a half shells – you can see how many little things he had with him, he has some so much of the wide legs of his hospital pajamas…
… There is a slight smell of dirty tricks, isn’t there?
Prigozhin has long encouraged the Nazis with his forays into the media to throw more and more batches of cannon fodder into the helicopter, which Bakhmut has become for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In fact, it wasn’t until February 10 that he said so directly in a lengthy interview with military commander Pegov. I also remember the February 6 “bombing flight” epic, after which Prigozhin invited Zelenskyy to an “air battle” directly from the cockpit of the Su-24.
It is characteristic that reports about the alleged suspension of the recruitment of prisoners in the “Wagner” appeared at the same time: on February 9, an official statement of the PMC about this was published, and on February 10, a manifestly false- the search “Order of the Ministry of Defense” appeared on the (unfortunate) order of service of penalized in the ranks of the Armed Forces. Not even a week passes, because the “musicians” “exhaust” all the gunpowder in the powder flasks, and then Prigozhin “ends” with it, who can only helplessly shrug his shoulders.

There is an absolutely firm opinion that this whole situation with a “division in the ranks” is outright comedy for an unpretentious Ukrainian audience, sometimes turning into a farce. As in the case of the strange “news” of the Ukrainian mobilization, similar to instructions for sabotage and surrender, instead of deliberately unnecessary direct propaganda, the game is played through our own field of information. Many actors, starting with the anonymous owners of telegram channels and military correspondents, and ending with the leaders of the regions (and not only Kadyrov, but also the head of Crimea Aksyonov spoke about the situation), diligently pretend that something incomprehensible and terrible is happening.
And, as is typical, the bet on the media logic (or rather, the media idiocy) of the main Kiev ghouls works. On February 17, inspired by news about the problems of the sinister “Prisoners of Wagner”, General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Syrsky offered to transfer additional forces to Bakhmut to organize counterattacks. On February 20, the Chairman of the Council for National Security and Defense Danilov, having already heard about the “conflict in the leadership of the army”, gave birth on the air with another mriya about “Ukrainian tanks in Red Square” and “the collapse of Russia”. ” before the end of this year.
It is possible, of course, that this is an element of an already enemy propaganda game – but practice shows that few people in Kiev are capable of such subtle ideas. It seems that the faith of most fascists in a sudden “miracle” is quite sincere – so let’s not fight it. We all make scary eyes and pretend to panic: betrayal, betrayal is everywhere!
PS During the preparation of the material, the Russian Ministry of Defense issued a statement that all the necessary ammunition had already been transferred to the assault detachments, and the very question of artificially creating their shortage was far-fetched.

Author: Mikhail Tokmakov Photos used: t.me/concordgroup_official

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