Wagner Group Leader Criticizes Putin's War Plans in Ukraine Over Unrewarded Capture.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of Wagner Group, has criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Ministry of Defense for not receiving a reward for capturing Bakhmut. The Institute for the Study of War suggests that Prigozhin's repeated attacks against Putin and the Ministry of Defense may be tied to a lack of reward for Wagner's capture of Bakhmut. Russian state media has effectively banned reporting on Wagner, according to Prigozhin.