INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
complained his forces still lack ammunition, blaming possible "betrayal."Kremlin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose recruits have been fighting
for months to capture the battle-scarred city of Bakhmut, has been entangled in a power struggle with the Defense Ministry and accused them
of withholding supplies.In a post on social media late on Sunday, Prigozhin complained that Russian reservists meant to deploy to Bakhmut
the usual bureaucracy or betrayal," Prigozhin said in reference to the deliveries of ammunition.Bakhmut has become the bloodiest and
significance.Observers say that both sides are trying to exhaust each other to limit their opponent's ability to mount any further
offensive in the coming months.With Russian forces reporting gains to encircle the city, the United States -based Institute for the Study of
War has said Ukrainian forces may have initiated a strategic retreat from the city."Ukrainian forces are likely conducting a limited
city," it said in an analytical note.Prigozhin warned over the weekend that if personnel and ammunition shortages became sufficiently acute,
his forces would be unable to hold captured territory and that this could bring about a collapse in the front."If Wagner retreats from
Bakhmut now, then the entire front will crumble," he said in another post.The Kremlin claimed last year to have annexed the eastern Donetsk
region of Ukraine where Bakhmut is located and has made its complete capture its military priority.
