In the document, analysts remind that a few days earlier, Yevgeny Prigogin interviewed the propaganda media, in which he acknowledged that Wagner Group could not succeed in the Bakhmut direction. "Putin's chef" justified that mercenaries could not capture the frontline city allegedly through "500 lines of defense", which were built by Ukrainian servicemen to protect the settlement.
According to ISW, this is the first public case when Yevgeny Prigogin acknowledged that Wagner Group had not achieved any success in Bakhmut. In this context, analysts give the opposite December statement of the Wagnerians, which stated that they were allegedly able to move in the direction of the frontline without the help of regular Russian troops.
"Prigogine probably creates information conditions to blame the Wagner group failure when taking Bakhmut of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation or Russian MIC.
Merries said Prigogine that they could not break through Ukrainian lines in Bakhmut due to insufficient amount of armored vehicles The statement is aimed at withdrawing personal responsibility from the Wagner group and Prigogine, explaining their failure in the capture of Bakhmut the problem of distribution of resources, ”the analysts added in their report.
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