Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
Extremely difficult shots, but they are worth seeing
The head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, published a photo of the PMC fighters who died per day (about 4-5 dozen) and an application addressed to the Chief of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov.
There are three columns in the application: the first is the consumption of the type of ammunition per day, the second is the consumption of the type of ammunition for 10 days, and the third, handwritten, actually issued to the PMC ammunition for 10 days. Prigozhin claims that now "Wagner" is forced to walk with an outstretched hand and beg for other army units, begging them for ammunition.
See the link for the referenced photo
Prigozhin said that the number of those killed should have been 5 times less, and they died "due to shell starvation." And those who “did not solve the issue of supplying ammunition” to the Wagnerites are to blame for their deaths. According to Prigozhin himself, "the final signature should be put either by Gersimov or Shoigu, neither of them wants to make a decision."
Prigozhin also expressed the key idea that if the relevant persons had prepared the army and done everything that they were obliged to do for the last 10 years, then Wagner PMC would not be needed at all.
Prigozhin says that ammunition is not issued by chance, but, as I understood Prigozhin, the leadership of the RF Ministry of Defense is thus showing jealousy for the successes of PMCs. According to Prigozhin, and I quote, "this application should be seen by the residents of the Russian Federation, who are suffering because of the swagger and meanness that occurs in the leadership of the Ministry of Defense."
From Russian Spring media outlet:
Battalion commander of "East" (Vostok) military unit revealed the background of the conflict with ammunition for PMCs and the problem of the norm of ammunition during the offensive
[Rusvesna] Recall that in the evening Yevgeny Prigozhin admitted that the Wagner group does not receive ammunition, but receives them in insufficient, in his opinion, quantity.
A. Khodakovsky has just voiced the background of the conflict around ammunition for PMCs and the problem of the ammo norm during an offensive.
“The problem is not that PMCs stopped receiving ammunition, but that they began to receive them, like everyone else.
Frankly, we envied the Wagners in a good way when they had their own front-line aviation, a daily allowance of two Iskanders and one Caliber, when they signed applications for two and a half thousand guns for training (!) Practice, when they were dragged to them with the whole country of convicts ... They envied, but they understood that not everyone would be given such a supply - and he would give the same result as they did. The result is not only the number of ...
Now the supply guys have become like everyone else, and what is most depressing is not the fact that they were specifically lowered to the general standards, but the fact that these standards do not allow them to give the desired result. Under the same Ugledar, before the offensive, the army reduced daily consumption to a minimum in order to accumulate a supply at least on the first day of the offensive. This was obviously not enough to suppress the resistance of the enemy, and the consequences were not long in coming."
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