6/12/2023 0 Comments Latest news headlines![]() The reference to defence minister Sergei Shoigu and chief of general staff Valery Gerasimov appeared to reignite the simmering feud between Prigozhin and the Russian establishment forces. Shoigu! Gerasimov! Where is the ******* ammunition?”. Prigozhin’s expletives were bleeped out in the video published by his press service, in which he yelled “We have a 70% shortage of ammunition. He asked defence chiefs to insert regular army troops in their place.Įarlier Prigozhin released a video showing him standing in a field of Russian corpses, personally blaming top defence chiefs for the losses suffered by his fighters in Ukraine. Prigozhin said they would pull back on 10 May – ending their involvement in the longest and bloodiest battle of the war – because of heavy losses and inadequate ammunition supplies. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the mercenary force, said in a sudden and dramatic announcement on Friday that his forces would leave Bakhmut, which they have been trying to capture since last summer. The time is now approaching 9pm in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital on a day where the leader of Russia’s Wagner group has threatened to withdraw from Bakhmut in an ongoing row with the Kremlin. ![]() Wagner has been spearheading Russia’s long and costly attempt to capture Bakhmut and Prigozhin said three weeks ago that his men controlled more than 80% of the city.īut Ukrainian defenders have held out, and Prigozhin has vented increasing anger at what he describes as lack of support from the Russian defence establishment.Įarlier today he issued a video in which he accused the leaders of Russia’s official forces of getting fat in their offices while Wagner troops lacked equipment. “I’m pulling Wagner units out of Bakhmut because in the absence of ammunition they’re doomed to perish senselessly.” “I declare on behalf of the Wagner fighters, on behalf of the Wagner command, that on, we are obliged to transfer positions in the settlement of Bakhmut to units of the defence ministry and withdraw the remains of Wagner to logistics camps to lick our wounds,” Prigozhin said in a statement. He asked defence chiefs to insert regular army troops in their place. Reuters reports Prigozhin said they would pull back on 10 May – ending their involvement in the longest and bloodiest battle of the war – because of heavy losses and inadequate ammunition supplies. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of Russia’s Wagner group mercenary force, said in a sudden and dramatic announcement on Friday that his forces would leave the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut that they have been trying to capture since last summer. The JD-S, led by former Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, is likely to play a crucial role in the Karnataka election result 2023, as it can tilt the balance in favour of either of the two major parties in case of a hung assembly.10.11 BST Prigozhin says Wagner forces will leave Bakhmut next week The party has been projecting former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah as its chief ministerial candidate, while also giving prominence to its state unit president DK Shivakumar. ![]() The BJP also changed Chief Minister during its tenure, with BS Yediyurappa resigning in July 2021 and being replaced by Basavaraj Bommai.Īs election results are announced today, the Congress, on the other hand, is hoping to regain power in Karnataka which was once its stronghold. The BJP currently has 121 MLAs in the assembly, while the Congress has 70 and the JD-S has 30. The BJP managed to secure the support of several rebel MLAs from the coalition, who later joined the BJP and won by-elections. The BJP came to power in Karnataka in July 2019, after the collapse of the coalition government of JD-S and the Congress, which was formed after the 2018 election. Of the total 224 seats, 36 seats are reserved for scheduled castes and 15 for scheduled tribes.Currently, the BJP has 119 MLAs, the Congress has 75 and the JD(S) has 28 seats. In the 224-seat Karnataka assembly, a party needs to win 113 seats to form the government. The Karnataka election results 2023 could set the tone for the Lok Sabha polls next year. The elections are expected to be a contest between the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress, with the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) playing a possible kingmaker role. Election Results 2023: The results for the assembly elections 2023 in Karnataka will be announced today, the voting for which was held in a single phase on May 10.
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