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Wagner chief: Mercenaries slaughtered because of ‘shell hunger’

Ukrainian servicemen fire a 120mm mortar round towards Russian positions at the front line near Bakhmut in the Donetsk region of Ukraine [File: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP]

The increasingly vitriolic owner of the Russian mercenary firm the Wagner Group hit out at Russia’s military elite by publishing a grim image of dozens of his fighters he said were killed after being deprived of ammunition while battling Ukrainian troops.

Yevgeny Prigozhin – founder of the Wagner private military company that is fighting on Moscow’s behalf in Ukraine – took a bitter public feud with the top army brass to a new level on Wednesday with the grisly photograph of corpses piled high, while laying blame for their deaths squarely with the top army brass.

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