The head of Wagner mercenary group today declared a withdrawal from the embattled city of Bakhmut on May 10 and slammed the Russian defence minister as 'scum' over his failure to provide sufficient ammunition to frontline forces.But senior Ukrainian officials cast doubt over Yevgeny Prigozhin's shocking announcement, alleging it is likely a ploy designed to distract Ukraine's armed forces from another brutal Russian assault ahead Moscow's Victory Day celebrations on May 9.Ukraine's Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said Wagner's proposed retreat, which would come one day after the annual events commemorating the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, was a lie and claimed Kyiv's troops were instead seeing a noticeable influx of more mercenary fighters to the frontlines.
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