 Prigozin is trying to replace Shoigu with Mizintsev in the post of Defense Minister. Yevgeny Prigozin, the founder of the Wagner Private Military Company, hopes to remove Sergei Shoigu, Russian Defense Minister, from his position after the decisive victory in Bakhmut and replace him with the former Deputy Defense Minister Mikhail Mizintsev. US-based Institute for the Study of War ISW reported it. Select representatives of law enforcement of Russia appear to be unsuccessful in their attempts to scare Prigozin into obedience. Prigozin stated that he is ready to take on the bureaucrats and accused them of attempting to gain more authority while using Wagner to fight the war. The ISW said, Prigozin also accused unnamed officials of indifference to the deaths of Russians at the front line and sarcastically stated that Russia's future Defense Minister has been in Bakhmut for more than a week when asked if Shoigu had accepted his invitation to visit the front line in Bakhmut. The ISW recalls that Prigozin recently made public his cooperation with the former Russian Deputy Defense Minister for Logistics and now the Deputy Commander of the Wagner Group, Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, and it is possible that Prigozin is trying to promote Mizintsev to replace Shoigu. Prigozin is likely aware that Putin is not entirely convinced of Shoigu's ability to win the war and may be hopeful that a decisive victory in Bakhmut would give him the leverage to replace Shoigu with Wagner-affiliated officials. Both Prigozin and Shoigu likely perceive this feud as an existential matter. The ISW said.