Wagner Group chief threatens to withdraw from Bakhamout amid drones targeting Crimea

The satellite image shows an overview of the city of Bakhammut, Ukraine. From the source

Yevzhny Prigozhin, head of Russia's Wagner Group, has threatened to withdraw his troops from the besieged Ukrainian city of Bakhamut due to the high rate of deaths and injuries in fighting there and due to a lack of supplies, as a fuel tank caught fire in Crimea after a possible drone attack.

In an interview with Russian military blogger Semyon Begov published on Saturday, Prigozhin said: "Every day we have piles of thousands of corpses that we put in coffins and send home."

Prigozhin added that the losses were five times more than necessary due to the lack of artillery ammunition.

The head of the Wagner Group said he had written to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to ask him for supplies as soon as possible. "If the ammunition deficit is not compensated, we are forced – so that we don't run like cowardly rats afterwards – to withdraw or die," he said.

Prigozhin said he would likely have to withdraw some of his troops, but warned that this would mean the front would collapse elsewhere.