The Ministry of Defense has promised to give the Wagner PMC the necessary ammunition to continue further hostilities, said PMC founder Yevgeny Prigozhin. According to him, General Sergei Surovikin was appointed responsible for coordinating the actions of the Ministry of Defense and PMCs.
“Tonight we received a combat order for the first time in all this time, in which, if we remove the secret data, the bottom line is the following: they promise to give us ammunition and weapons as much as we need to continue further actions, we swear that everything will be on the flank it was set out what is necessary so that the enemy does not cut us, we are told that we can act in Bakhmut as we see fit, and we are given Surovikin as a person who will make all decisions in the framework of the military operations of the Wagner PMC "on interaction with the Ministry of Defense," Prigozhin said.
Earlier, Prigozhin said that on May 10, PMCs would leave Bakhmut, and Ramzan Kadyrov said that he was ready to take up positions in the city after Wagner left.
Prigozhin also noted that “everyone unequivocally answered no” to Kadyrov’s proposal to transfer the Wagnerites under his command.
On May 5, Prigozhin asked Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to transfer the Wagner PMC positions in Bakhmut to Akhmat. He also said that he was negotiating with the Kadyrovites themselves: “I am already contacting his [Kadyrov’s] representatives to begin the transfer of positions immediately so that on May 10 at 00:00, exactly at the moment when we have completely exhausted our combat potential, on Our comrades-in-arms stood up in our places and continued the assault on the settlement of Bakhmut.