The head of Russias infamous Wagner mercenary group Yevgeniy Prigozhin stated on Thursday that he d been cut off from all government communication channels following his current public plea to the Ministry of Defense to provide his fighters in Ukraine with urgently required ammunition.

In order to stop me from requesting ammunition, they shut off all special [federal government] phone lines in all of the offices and [Wagner] systems ...

and obstructed all [my] passes to the companies responsible for making choices, Prigozhin stated in a message posted on his Telegram channel.

Prigozhin made headlines last month when he implicated Russias leading brass of devoting treason by deliberately denying his fighters in eastern Ukraine of ammo materials.

He subsequently got in touch with ordinary Russians to help him put pressure on the nations regular army to share their products of ammunition with Wagner mercenaries.Though Prigozhin subsequently announced that ammunition deliveries to Wagner had actually resumed, in his Thursday message he revealed that the ammunition shortage circumstance hadnt, in reality, seen much enhancement.

Now I can just ask [for more materials] through the media and ...

more than likely will be doing just that, Prigozhin stated.

A close ally of President Vladimir Putin, Prigozhin has been engaged in a public stand-off with Russian military officials for months now, accusing them of taking credit for victories won by Wagner fighters and of decreasing the advance of Wagner units in Ukraine with red tape.