{"id":38309,"date":"2023-05-08T18:30:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T18:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/head-of-russias-wagner\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T18:32:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T18:32:03","slug":"head-of-russias-wagner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/head-of-russias-wagner\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of Russia&#8217;s Wagner group: we are beginning to get needed ammunition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211;     The head of Russia&#8217;s mercenary Wagner group said on Monday his troops were beginning to receive ammunition needed to press their advance to capture the long-besieged eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, the groups advanced a maximum of 130 metres (400 feet) &#8230; Fierce fighting is going on, but the groups are continuing to advance,&#8221; Yevgeny Prigozhin said in an audio message posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to preliminary data, we are starting to receive ammunition. We have not (yet) seen it in practice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prigozhin said Ukrainian forces were confined to an area of about 2.36 square km (0.9 square miles) in the town.<\/p>\n<p>Bakhmut has been under Russian attack for more than nine months, with Wagner spearheading repeated attempts to advance on what once was a city of 70,000.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian commanders have vowed to keep their hold on the city despite a Russian drive to take it in time for Tuesday&#8217;s Victory Day holiday marking the defeat of Nazi Germany<\/p>\n<p>Prigozhin last week threatened to pull his forces out unless they received the ammunition they needed, but subsequently withdrew the threat.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Ron Popeski and Oleksander Kozhukhar; Editing by Chris Reese and Andrew Cawthorne)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/head-of-russias-wagner\/smoke-erupts-following-a-shell-explosion-in-bakhmut-3\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ470LO-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ470LO-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; The head of Russia&#8217;s mercenary Wagner group said on Monday his troops were beginning to receive ammunition needed to press their advance to capture the long-besieged eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. &#8220;Today, the groups advanced a maximum of 130 metres (400 feet) &#8230; Fierce fighting is going on, but the groups are continuing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":38310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ470LO-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38311,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38309\/revisions\/38311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}