“Explosion” of Yevgeny Prigozhin, and civil war in the Russian army. The “boss” of the mercenary organization Wagner, directly blamed the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Defense (see Sergei Shoigu) for “high treason”, that is, for the alleged attempt to destroy his private mercenary organization, in a recording published on Tuesday by his press service on his Telegram channel.

“The Chief of the General Staff and the Minister of Defense are giving orders right and left that Wagner PMC should not receive ammunition, they also do not help with air transport,” Prigozhin claimed, as reported by CNN.

“There is direct opposition, which is said to be nothing but an attempt to destroy the PMC,” he said. “This can be evened out with utter treachery now, when the Wagner PMC is fighting for Bahamut, losing hundreds of its fighters every day.”

On the recording, a seemingly frustrated Prigozhin also complained about the high death toll of the Wagner group, citing a continued lack of supplies.

“Wagner PMC is out of ammo. Why are the other units also constantly running low on ammo? A handful of military officials have decided that this is their country, their people, they have decided that these people will die whenever it suits them,” he said.

It is noted that when asked about this, Prigozhin had stated that Vladimir Putin did not invite him to his speech today, adding that “he has a job in Bahamut” and that “Wagner members do not go to such events”.

In today’s speech of the Russian president to the Federal Assembly, a number of important figures whose actions are related to the war in Ukraine, were not present, as noted by media and social media. In particular, the president of Chechnya was not present Ramzan Kadyrov, the founder of the mercenary organization Wagner, the commander of the Russian troops in Ukraine Valery Gerasimov and his deputy Sergei Surovikin, and also the mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin.