Yevgeny Prigozhin

Prigozhin also posted a 'report' dated May 17 that stated that Russian soldiers were 'mining roads in the rear zone of Wagner unites'

Prigozhin announced on May 25 that he was pulling out his troops from Bakhmut after what had been the longest and bloodiest battle of the Ukraine war

Yevgeny Prigozhin's request is the most blatant public challenge to date against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top military brass

Ukraine, which denies that Bakhmut has fallen to Russia, insists that it still controls a 'micro-district' of the ruined city

As Moscow takes stock following the most serious attack on its soil in the war, Wagner's chief says Russia's border with Ukraine is not properly protected

"How did we demilitarize them? On the contrary, it turns out we f***ing militarized them," Prigozhin says

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has earlier congratulated the Wagner group and the regular army with the downfall of Bakhmut

Bakhmut is by now the scene of the longest and bloodiest battle in Moscow's offensive

The blasted ruins of Bakhmut, described by both sides as a 'meat grinder,' would be Moscow's only prize for its huge winter offensive

Prigozhin dismisses the report, despite last week threatening to withdraw his troops from Ukraine's Bakhmut