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Accusations from the Head of Wagner Group About Russia's Lies Regarding the Ukraine War
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Accusations from the Head of Wagner Group About Russia’s Lies Regarding the Ukraine War

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The head of the Russian mercenary Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has accused senior Russian military officers of fabricating lies to invade Ukraine.

Prigozhin, whose frequent criticism on social media belied his limited role in the war as head of the private military company Wagner, publicly accuses Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Russia’s top general Valery Gerasimov of incompetence.

But on Friday, he rejected for the first time Russia’s basic justifications for invading Ukraine on February 24 last year in what it called a “special military operation,” in a video he posted to Telegram through his press service.

“There was nothing out of the ordinary on February 24… The Department of Defense is trying to deceive society and the president and tell us a story about how there was crazy aggression from Ukraine and that they were planning to attack us with a beautiful story,” said Prigozhin, calling the official version a “beautiful story.”

“War was needed…so that Shoigu would become marshals…so that he could get a second ‘hero’ (for Russia) medal. War was not necessary to demilitarize or disarm Ukraine.”

Sitting in a chair with a giant black Wagner flag behind him, Prigozhin said the war was also necessary to enrich the ruling elite who, he said, were dissatisfied with the commercial potential of the part of Ukraine’s Donbass that Moscow controlled. 2014 through a proxy separatist force.

“The task was to divide the physical assets (in Ukraine),” he said. “There was a big robbery in the Donbass, but they wanted more.”

Contradicts Putin

Wagner led Russia’s capture of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut last month, and Prigozhin has used his success on the battlefield — achieved at enormous human cost — to publicly criticize Moscow with apparent impunity.

However, he has not criticized President Vladimir Putin, whose support he ultimately counts on.

However, his latest assertions directly contradict the rationale stated by Putin, who said when sending his tanks into Ukraine that it was to disarm and “mutilate” a country that posed a threat to Russia, a claim denied by Kiev.

It is a narrative that Russian authorities are defending with fines or prison terms for those believed to have spread “lies” about the war.

There was no immediate response from the Defense Ministry, which has ignored previous complaints from Prigozhin, in public at least. There was also no immediate reaction from the Kremlin, which has also in the past refused to comment on Prigozhin’s outbursts.

However, Putin supported the Defense Ministry’s order, which Prigozhin opposes, that mercenary groups like Wagner must sign contracts putting themselves under the ministry’s control by July 1.

Some Russian analysts have speculated that Prigozhin has political ambitions and may be seeking to replace Shoigu, an idea he has long played down.

On Thursday, he accused senior officers of lying to Putin and the Russian people about the size of Russian losses and setbacks in Ukraine.

In a video on Friday, he said Moscow could have made a deal with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky before the war, that the conflict was a disaster for Russia, and that tens of thousands of young people had been needlessly sacrificed, including members of Russia’s most capable personnel. . forces.

portraying senior officers as jerks fed on vodka and cognac and feasting on caviar, and alleged corruption was hampering Russia’s war effort.

He said, “We bathe in our own blood.” “Time is running out quickly.”

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