The Russian military machine is at war with Ukraine — and itself.
mercenary army that has been invaluable to Russia’s affront on Ukraine, and the Russian military leadership is at the heart of the tension. Yet intense as the infighting between the two factions has become, the two have been forced to rely on each other out of sheer necessity. The Wagner Group needs the Russian military as a source of supplies, and the Russian military needs Wagner to fill in breaches and engage in near-suicidal missions the Russian high command would rather avoid.
As it stands, the opposing camps are either oblivious to this most basic fact or are more interested in settling scores than salvaging a war effort that, to date, has been riddled with a lack of coordination and has weakened Russia militarily, politically, economically and strategically. Whether or not all the details are substantiated, the report itself highlights a tug-of-war between Prigozhin’s private army and the Russian military establishment.that Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose fighters have backstopped the Russian army in places like the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, offered to provide Ukraine with intelligence on Russian troop positions in exchange for Kyiv pulling its forces from the mid-size city. The information, part of a dossier of U.S.
It’s no secret that Prigozhin has been strongly critical of the Russian military’s performance since the war erupted in February 2022. The man commonly referred to as “Putin’s Chef” because of his lucrative catering contracts with the Kremlin isn’t afraid to register his opinions on the competence of Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and Gen. Valery Gerasimov, chief of the Army General Staff who Vladimir Putin appointed last fall as the overall commander of Russian forces in Ukraine.
Yevgeny Prigozhin addresses the Russian army's senior command in a message posted to Telegram on May 5.The swift rout of Russian troops in Kharkiv last September was apparently so distasteful to Prigozhin thatand complained about how the war was being run.
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