Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary company, on Tuesday accused Russian army soldiers of abandoning positions in Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, adding that the state is incapable of defending Russia.
“Today, one of the units of the Ministry of Defense (Russia) fled on one of the flanks (…). Russian.
“Why doesn’t the State come here to defend the country?” Questioned the Russian oligarch in another message recorded on video and broadcast by the digital messaging system Telegram.
The remarks by the head of the Wagner group, whose fighters were hired to fight in Bakhmut, are broadcast at the same time as the traditional May 9 (Victory Day) parade marking the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945.
Source: TSF
