Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin has posted a picture showing dozens of dead Wagner fighters, blaming it on "shell starvation" and "those who should have solved the question of supplying us with enough ammunition."

Prigozhin also posted the photograph of a formal request asking the Russian military to provide Wagner with ammunition in order to capture Bakhmut, a request he says has not been fulfilled.

"Ammunition was not given to us and is not being given to us. It is now 10 a.m. on February 22, no steps have been taken to provide ammunition," Prigozhin said as he posted the photograph of the dead Russian soldiers.

"I'm publishing a photo below. This is one of the gathering places of the dead. These are the guys who died yesterday due to the so-called shell starvation," he went on to say.

"There should have been five times fewer of them. So mothers, wives and children will get their bodies."The Wagner founder had accused the leadership of the Russian defense ministry of "treason" on Tuesday, for their alleged failure in providing the private military company with ammunition.

"The Chief of the General Staff and the Minister of Defense 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 in a recording posted by his press service on Telegram.

"This can be equated to high treason now when Wagner PMC are fighting for Bakhmut, losing hundreds of their fighters every day."

/CNN