Day 438 of the Invasion of Ukraine: U-Turn - "Wagner" remains in Bakhmut, Moscow will send them Weapons

Day 438 of the invasion of Ukraine. Summary of key events in the last 24 hours:

• U-turn: "Wagner" remains in Bakhmut, Moscow will send them weapons
• BBC: Panic as Russia evacuates town near Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
• A Russian fighter jet has intercepted an unarmed Polish plane over the Black Sea
• Piontkovsky: Private military companies in Russia are preparing for a mafia battle after the war
• The Institute for the Study of War: Prigozhin and Kadyrov announced their intention to have Chechen fighters replace "Wagner" in the battle for Bakhmut
• Explosions in Crimea after suspected Ukrainian drone attacks
• Ukraine fears that the counter-offensive will not meet the hopes of the West
• Russia blamed Ukraine for the attack on Zakhar Prilepin

U-turn: "Wagner" remains in Bakhmut, Moscow will send them weapons

The head of the Russian private army "Wagner" Yevgeny Prigozhin announced that Moscow would send him ammunition to continue the fighting in Bakhmut. This in all likelihood means that Prigozhin's fighters will continue with hostilities at the hottest military location of the war in Ukraine at the moment.

Prigozhin regularly criticized the Russian authorities for a lack of support at the front.

On Thursday, Yevgeny Prigozhin attacked his Russian counterparts in a terrifying, expletive-filled tirade filmed amid dozens of corpses of Wagner soldiers, we recall. The next day he announced that Wagner's fighters would leave Bakhmut by May 10. Today, however, Prigozhin said Moscow had agreed to provide the...