On Tuesday’s Europe Day, Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of Wagner’s mercenary group, questioned the Kremlin’s ability to defend the country as Ukraine prepares for a spring counter-offensive.
“Why is the state unable to defend its country?” Prigozhin said in a scathing video posted to the Telegram social network, adding that Ukraine “successfully” reached Russia’s border regions.
Russian oligarch Prigozhin said Russian soldiers “ran away” from the army because the defense ministry was “always planning instead of fighting”.
Mercenary leader Wagner accused Russian army soldiers of abandoning positions in Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine.
“Today one of the units of the Ministry of Defense (Russia) fled from one of the flanks (…). Russian.
Statements by the head of the Wagner group, whose fighters were hired to fight in Bakhmut, are being aired at the same time as the traditional May 9 (Victory Day) parade marking Nazi Germany’s capitulation in 1945.
With Lusa
Source: DN
