{"id":2791,"date":"2023-06-05T12:29:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T12:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/2023\/06\/05\/wagner-chief-blasts-putins-disgraceful-army-after-ukraine-retakes-bakhmut-territory\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T12:29:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T12:29:14","slug":"wagner-chief-blasts-putins-disgraceful-army-after-ukraine-retakes-bakhmut-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wagner-chief-blasts-putins-disgraceful-army-after-ukraine-retakes-bakhmut-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Wagner chief blasts Putin’s ‘disgraceful’ army after Ukraine retakes Bakhmut territory"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The chief of the Wagner mercenary group has lambasted Russia’s military<\/a> leaders after Ukrainian armed forces managed to retake settlements on the outskirts of Bakhmut.\u00a0<\/p>\n Yevgeny Prigozhin said it was a ‘disgrace’ that Kyiv<\/a>‘s troops were able to push back Russian lines and seize Berkhivka, a town in the northern suburbs of the embattled city.<\/p>\n Prigozhin’s Wagner group just last month managed to wrest Bakhmut out of Ukrainian hands after months of brutal fighting reminiscent of World War I trench warfare, with tens of thousands killed on both sides<\/a>.<\/p>\n The mercenary figurehead hit out at Russia’s defence minister Sergei Shoigu and army chief Valery Gerasimov, taunting them and urging them to go to the frontlines and see the failures for themselves.<\/p>\n ‘Now part of the settlement of [Berkhivka] has already been lost, the troops are slowly falling back. What a disgrace!\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘Shoigu, Gerasimov, I urge you to come to the front, raise your pistols at your men to make them go forward.\u00a0Come on, you can!\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘And if you can’t, then you will die as heroes.’\u00a0<\/p>\n Prigozhin’s latest tirade comes as his mercenaries\u00a0captured a lieutenant colonel from Vladimir\u00a0Putin<\/a>‘s regular forces in the latest example of bitter infighting in Russian ranks.\u00a0<\/p>\n The captured colonel was seen hanging his head in a humiliating video posted by the Wagner group in which he confessed his ‘guilt’ and admitted to being drunk on duty after allegedly shooting at a Wagner vehicle.<\/p>\n This follows claims by the mercenaries that the regular Russian army targeted their ranks with mines, as a clip showed their sappers clearing the explosive devices from a road.<\/p>\n