Due to a lack of ammunition, the leader of the Wagner Group said on Friday that he will be removing his soldiers from the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on May 10.
Without ammo, Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed, his private armed groups are “doomed to a senseless death.”
Prigozhin has often grumbled that Russia hasn’t given his Ukrainian mercenaries adequate backing.
The Ukrainian flag was taken from the Ukrainian delegate in order to keep it out of the background while a Russian official was being interviewed, and video of the altercation has now surfaced from the Black Sea Economic Cooperation assembly in Ankara.
The “recent uptick” of Russian rail mishaps along the Ukrainian border was attributed by the British Defense Ministry to “sabotage by unknown actors.”
According to the ministry’s report shared on Twitter on Friday, the strikes “almost certainly” caused “short-term localized disruption of Russia military rail movements.”
According to the ministry, Russia’s Railway Troop Brigades can immediately repair the lines. Although under increasing strain, Russia’s internal security forces “will highly likely remain unable to fully protect Russia’s vast and vulnerable rail networks from attack.”
On Thursday night, a malfunctioning drone belonging to Ukraine was shot down above central Kiev.
The Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicle was initially described by government officials as an enemy drone, but later the air force said it was Ukrainian.
The uncontrolled presence of the drone in the skies may have had “undesirable consequences,” according to a statement from the air force.
The drone was shot down without any reports of injuries.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, stated earlier on Thursday that he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin will eventually stand prosecution for war crimes for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Zelenskyy declared, “Only one Russian crime led to all of these crimes: this is the crime of aggression, the beginning of evil, the primary crime,” in a speech at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. For this crime, someone should bear accountability.
A war crimes accusation against Putin stemming from the alleged deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia led to the ICC issuing an arrest warrant for him in March. Putin, according to Zelenskyy, “deserves to be sentenced for these criminal actions right here in the capital of the international law.”
And I’m certain that will occur if we succeed. And we’ll triumph, he assured.
The crime of war aggression cannot be brought to justice by the ICC. Zelenskyy, however, argued that a full-fledged tribunal should try that major offense.
“If we want true justice, we should not look for justifications or point to the flaws in current international law, but rather should make bold decisions that will correct… flaws that regrettably exist in international law,” he stated.
Pole Piotr Hofmaski, the ICC’s president, greeted Zelenskyy outside the courthouse. To watch Zelenskyy arrive, court employees gathered at windows and raised the Ukrainian flag next to the court’s own flag outside the structure.
In a statement on March 18, the International Criminal Court (ICC) said that Putin “is allegedly responsible for the war crime of the unlawful deportation of [children] and that of the unlawful transfer of [children] from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.”
