Founder and owner of a security company Wagner Group, Russian oligarch Evgeny Prigozhinwill expedite the withdrawal of its people from Ukraine after the Russian Armed Forces delay the shipment of ammunition and more effective on the fronts on which they.

Discomfort for Prigozhin, a former associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, comes from afar after being banned recruit his mercenary organization in Russian prisons, as he has done so far.

Prigozhin recently went so far as to call Russia’s top military command “traitors” because they supposedly wouldn’t listen. their demands for more men and ammunitionwhile the group continues to fight with Ukrainian troops in the area of ​​the city of Bakhmut.

In retaliation, Prigozhin, whose independence the Kremlin dislikes, plans to withdraw from Ukraine and relaunch the group in Africa, where it has several open fronts of cooperation. with the authorities of some countries of the continent, according to sources consulted by Bloomberg.

Despite months of fighting, Ukrainian forces they repulse Wagner’s attacks with the aim of capturing Bakhmut, the scenario that Moscow was aiming for as it is the hub from which the supplies that Kyiv sends to its troops on the eastern front originate.

The military commanders appear to have succeeded in getting Putin to question Wagner’s supposed military superiority after the Russian president moved to the Defense Ministry. exclusivity of the possibility of recruitment among the penitentiary centers of the country.

Since the invasion of Ukraine began just over a year ago, Prigozhin has had unlimited access to Russian prisons to recruit any willing prisoners. go to war in exchange for their release if they live at least six months.

However, many of them did not have the necessary military training to a company of this size. According to British intelligence, half of the 40,000 recruited prisoners died.

Last week, Wagner announced a recruitment campaign for sports centers in nearly fifty Russian cities, with which they hope to register about 30,000 new volunteers.