Russia suffers from an ammunition shortage that extends beyond the Wagner Group mercenary forces, according to Russian complaints from the front that express anxiety about a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
“It’s not the issue of Wagnerites — the issue is about the whole front — everyone is lacking,” said Yuri Mezinov, a pro-Kremlin political figure from a Russian border region. “There are no rounds, you understand? None.”
"The real heroes now are the defenders who hold the eastern front on their shoulders and, sparing neither themselves nor their enemies, inflict maximum losses on them,” Ukrainian Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander of the Ukrainian military’s Ground Forces, said Saturday. “It is necessary to buy time to accumulate reserves and start a counteroffensive, which is not far off.”
Paradoxically, Russia’s struggles around Bakhmut have sparked a disagreement in militarist circles about whether Ukrainian forces will launch a counter-offensive — or whether such a campaign is even necessary. “What is happening at the front really cannot but suggest that by accumulating forces along the entire line of contact ... and in the Donbas, the enemy is preparing something like a revanche,” assessed an author at Reverse Side of the Medal, a Telegram channel affiliated with the Wagner Group, according to the War Translated project.
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