In an expletive-laden video filmed in front of a field of corpses, Wagner mercenary group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin accused Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and the head of the army Valery Gerasimov of failing to supply his troops in Ukraine with enough ammunition. He said he will pull his forces out of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, where they’ve been fighting since late last year, on May 10 if he doesn’t get more munitions. That threat came in a separate written appeal to President Vladimir Putin published Friday, echoing a warning he issued late last month. “These are all Wagner guys who were killed today, the blood is still fresh,” Prigozhin said in the grisly video posted Friday on his Telegram channel, in which he claimed his troops lacked 70% of the ammunition they needed. “Due to the shortage of munitions, our losses are growing geometrically on a daily basis,” he said in the written appeal, which he later posted as a video in front of live soldiers. Wagner has already advanced most of the way into Bakhmut, he said, claiming that only a small amount remains to be seized. Prigozhin has repeatedly accused the Defense Ministry in Moscow of failing to supply enough ammunition to Wagner troops who’ve been fighting intense battles for months with Ukrainian forces in an operation he said was called the “Bakhmut Meatgrinder.” It’s not clear whether the friction is genuine or a possible attempt to lull Ukraine’s military into believing that Russian forces are less well-equipped than in fact they are. In his appeal to Putin, Prigozhin recounted his version of the conflict, blaming “bureaucrats” for starving his units to prevent Wagner from meeting its goal of retaking all of Bakhmut by May 9, when Russia celebrates the Soviet victory in World War II. The Kremlin is aware of the appeal but spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on it. -------- Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2TwO8Gm Subscribe to Bloomberg Originals: https://www.youtube.com/BloombergTV Bloomberg Quicktake brings you global social video spanning business, technology, politics and culture. Make sense of the stories changing your business and your world. Connect with us on… YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Bloomberg Breaking News on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BloombergQuicktakeNow Twitter: https://twitter.com/quicktake Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quicktake Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quicktake