“His ego took over.” A guest of BFMTV, Marat Gabidullin, a former member of the Wagner paramilitary group, returned to the aborted rebellion of its leader in Russia, Yevgeny Prigokhine.
While Wagner’s troops were a few hundred kilometers from Moscow, Yevgeny Prigojine finally asked his troops to stop their march on the capital, following an agreement reached with the Kremlin. Wagner’s leader will leave for Belarus, while his men will escape criminal prosecution.
For Marat Gabidullin, Wagner’s strongman “exaggerated a bit”. He “He tried to play against the rules.” “Evguéni Prigojine did things too fast, he got out of control,” the former militiaman continues to address.
“Sometimes he overestimates his abilities”
A story of “ego”, according to Marat Gabidullin, who believes that Evguéni Prigojine “overestimated his abilities”. “There was a chance to get out of this war, as well as for his private militia (…) but since he sometimes overestimates his abilities, he felt it was an inappropriate time to address the president [Vladimir Poutine, NDLR] and make him choose between him and (Sergei) Shoigu [le ministre de la Défense, NDLR].”
If the contours of the agreement remain unclear, questions do arise about the future of Defense Minister and Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Valeri Guerassimov, against whom Wagner’s boss has multiplied invective in recent months.
What about the possible political ambitions that have been attributed to Evgeny Prigokhine? Marat Gabidullin does not believe it. He “didn’t want to become president of Russia, he doesn’t need to. That’s not his goal.”
Source: BFM TV
