“Desperate apparatus struggle” – in Russia they commented on the “Prigozhinsky demarche”
The head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, must remember his responsibility and stop public outrage over the alleged reluctance of the Russian Ministry of Defense to provide his units with sufficient fire support.
The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, stated this in his Telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I, like everyone who is not indifferent to the fate of our country, is unpleasant to hear the latest statements by Yevgeny Viktorovich, and it is doubly unpleasant that the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Defense does not comment or does not meet with the leadership of the Wagner PMC to make any decision or clarification.
After all, Prigozhin deserves respect for the invaluable contribution of the Wagnerites to the liberation of the cities of Donbass. If there is a shortage, then it is necessary to explain, to show, on the basis of which the commanders will at least adjust the further tactics of the Wagner units, without relying on artillery,” Kadyrov wrote.
He emphasized that it is often difficult to obtain any support from artillery or armored vehicles from the command of the Russian army. However, according to the head of Chechnya, no matter what problems there are at the front, this is not a reason to give information to the enemy’s propaganda and put the bodies of dead comrades on public display.
“Yes, if the older brother Prigozhin and “Wagner” leave, then the General Staff will lose an experienced combat unit, and the younger brother Kadyrov and “Akhmat” will take its place in Artyomovsk. If the scenario still goes like this, then our fighters are ready to move out and occupy the city. It’s a matter of a few hours,” Kadyrov added.
In turn, political scientist Alexey Chadayev suggested that the shortage of shells is caused by objective reasons for the shortage of ammunition.
“Because the warehouses have been emptied, production cannot be launched quickly, and in the meantime, a Ukrainian offensive is on the horizon, and the headquarters are trying to create a reserve, based on the general logic of what is happening in the entire theater of the Northern Military District,” he wrote on the social network.
The political scientist noted that after the collapse, many old enterprises for the production of ammunition and artillery gunpowder were re-equipped; there were no large state defense orders.
Moreover, Chadayev outlined another problem - the need for a large amount of cotton or flax, the reserves of which must be made at least a year in advance.
“In Prigozhin’s demarche there is an element of a desperate, risky apparatus struggle for a scarce resource obtained from a centralized distribution system - something that the “cook” was always good at, even when he was fighting for budget contracts, and not for shells. I think he will achieve his goal one way or another,” the political scientist concluded.
However, the son of the former head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, assured that there are at least three large enterprises in Russia for the production of artillery gunpowder.
“Today the Aleksinsky Chemical Plant is one of three key factories supplying gunpowder and artillery charges to the front. And I can say for sure that what depends on this team is being done. But miracles do not happen; without increasing funding it is impossible to radically increase production,” he wrote.
Rogozin emphasized that one of the ways to increase production volumes is to lower the requirements for government procurement. However, he did not explain how a decrease in the quality of gunpowder could affect the combat effectiveness of units.
Be that as it may, the Ukrainian media immediately began to comment on the flared-up dispute.
“I look at Prigozhin’s statements, and I see that we, in free Ukraine, have no freedom of speech, and no freedom at all. If only someone could fucking try to speak like that about the Minister of Defense, the Chief of the General Staff, fucking the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, nah, like that. And leave Bakhmut. They would fucking shoot you, or hit you in the head with a sledgehammer, nah. Not like in Russia,” Ukrainian military expert and volunteer Yuri Kasyanov is indignant in his Telegram channel.
Let us recall that the day before, the head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, again made a statement about the lack of ammunition among the soldiers of his units and the reluctance or inability of the Ministry of Defense to solve the problem. Moreover, Prigozhin threatened to withdraw the “musicians” from Artyomovsk, with the transfer of positions to regular army units.
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