 Russian Defence Ministry laid mines on Wagner Group fighters' exit routes from Bakhmut. Yevgeny Prigozin, head of the Wagner Group Private Military Company, has said that representatives of the Russian Ministry of Defence had laid mines on Wagner Group fighters' exit routes from Bakhmut. Just before exiting Bakhmut, we detected suspicious activities along our exit routes. We called law enforcement agencies and found around a dozen locations with dozens of explosive devices, hundreds of anti-tank mines, to tons of plastic explosives. The command was responsible for all of this. Investigations are currently underway. Representatives of the Russian Defence Ministry were the ones to rig those areas with explosives. When asked why they did it, they pointed to their leadership. There was no need to place those devices to hold enemy forces back. They were all behind the front lines. We can therefore assume that those explosives were destined for the Wagner Private Military Company, he added. Prigozin said none of his fighters were injured. He claimed that this was the Russian leadership's attempt to give him a public beating.