A still from a video circulating online that appears to show Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigpzhin talking in a darkened room. The subtitles read:
A still from a video showing Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, which circulated over the weekend of March 4, 2023.
  • Yevgeny Prigozhin said the Russian front line will collapse if Wagner Group men don't hold Bakhmut.
  • In a video circulated over the weekend, he called for more support from the regular Russian army.
  • He earlier claimed that his men had the city almost completely surrounded. 

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the pro-Kremlin Wagner Group mercenary army, said that Russia's entire front line will collapse if his fighters don't take the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.