Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, accused the top members of the Russian Defense Ministry of “treason.”

Prigozhin, whose notoriety has grown in recent months as his troops fight in Ukraine, accused top Russian defense leaders of attempting to destroy his organization in a recording released on Tuesday by his press service on Telegram. The Wagner boss has no official position, though he has continued to clash with Russian Ministry of Defense officials over the poor outcomes in Ukraine.

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"The Chief of the General Staff [Valery Gerasimov] and the Minister of Defense [Sergei Shoigu] are handing out commands right and left that the Wagner PMC should not receive ammunition; they are also not helping with air transport,” Prigozhin claimed.

The Wagner leader alleged that his troops do not have the same supplies as Russian forces, while his comments further demonstrate an apparent rift between Prigozhin and Russian military leaders, including Shoigu.

“Wagner PMCs do not have ammunition. Why do the rest of the units also have a constant shortage of ammunition? A handful of military functionaries decided that this is their country, their people, who decided that these people would die when it suits them,” he said.

“There is direct opposition, which is called nothing more than an attempt to destroy PMCs," he added. “This can be equated to high treason now when Wagner PMC are fighting for Bakhmut, losing hundreds of their fighters every day.”

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The Wagner Group, which has brutally operated in several African nations in recent years, has roughly 50,000 personnel deployed in Ukraine, including 10,000 contractors and another 40,000 convicts that had been in Russian prisons prior to joining the war, National Security Council coordinator John Kirby told reporters last month.

The administration also announced a slew of new sanctions against the Wagner Group and designated it as a "transnational criminal organization."