A happy old man thinks everything is fine – Prigozhin complains about lack of ammunition and calls putin an "asshole"

After russian President vladimir putin delivered a speech at the victory parade in moscow, Yevgeny Prigozhin's press service published a new series of video messages from the head of the Wagner group, where he again complains about the lack of ammunition and blames the problems of the war on "a happy old man who thinks everything is fine."

Source: The moscow Times

According to Prigozhin, the russian Defense Ministry has not provided ammunition to the Wagnerites, who have been storming Bakhmut for almost six months and suffering thousands of casualties.

"According to Prigozhin, the Wagner group received a warning that leaving their positions would be considered treason against the motherland. According to Prigozhin, one of the units of the russian Defense Ministry fled the positions, leaving a 2-kilometer hole in the front.

According to Prigozhin, they are given only 10% of the necessary supplies, and instead of handing over the shells, they are collected in warehouses.

"Why are there shells in warehouses? Let me explain. There are people who are at war. And there are people who once in their lives learned somewhere that there should be a reserve, and they are collecting, collecting, collecting these reserves. <...> Instead of spending a shell, killing the enemy, saving the life of our soldier, our soldiers are killed, and a happy old man thinks he's fine. And what should the country do next... If he is right, God bless everyone. But what should the country do, what should our children, grandchildren, the future of russia do, and how to win the war if it suddenly turns out by chance-I'm just guessing-that this grandfather is a complete asshole," Prigozhin said, without specifying which grandfather he was referring to.

russian bloggers saw this comment as a transparent hint.

"I wonder. Who is Prigozhin referring to? Who is this grandfather? Is he talking about the bunker grandfather? Or is there another one?" wrote Olga Romanova, head of the Sitting russia Foundation.

A similar comment was left by former businessman Leonid Nevzlin: "Is he talking about the bunker guy?"

Journalist Roman Super also believes that Prigozhin "called putin a 'complete asshole' in black and white."

"The first hit on putin, is it?" writes FBC employee Yan Matveyev. Former State Duma deputy Gennady Gudkov has the same question: "I wonder who the 'grandfather' in his speech is? Is it really putin? Was he the first to throw a stone at Zero? Or did I misunderstand something?"

"And then it will be like in the famous joke? Prigozhin will say: 'I'm talking about Biden!!! Who did you think about, Comrade putin?'"

Background. Earlier it was reported that Prigozhin said that he would hand over the positions of the Wagner group near Bakhmut to Kadyrov's fighters, but he was promised supplies of ammunition.