“In late January, together with his mercenary forces dying by the 1000’s in a battle for the ruined metropolis of Bakhmut, Wagner Group proprietor Yevgeniy Prigozhin made Ukraine a unprecedented provide,” the Washington Put up studies.
“Prigozhin stated that if Ukraine’s commanders withdrew their troopers from the realm round Bakhmut, he would give Kyiv info on Russian troop positions, which Ukraine might use to assault them. Prigozhin conveyed the proposal to his contacts in Ukraine’s navy intelligence directorate, with whom he has maintained secret communications through the course of the struggle.”