militia leader Wagner attacks Russian soldiers

His verbal attacks escalated. Openly in conflict with the Russian military hierarchy for several months, Yevgeny Prigojine, the boss of the paramilitary group Wagner, this time attacked Russian soldiers in a new video posted on Telegram, Tuesday, May 9. “Today, one of the units of the Ministry of Defense abandoned its positions. They all fled and left exposed a front almost two kilometers wide and 500 meters deep”did he declare.

He spares Vladimir Putin

Yevgeny Prigojine also criticized the military hierarchy for trying to deceive Vladimir Putin. A few days earlier, militia leader Wagner had criticized the defense minister and the Kremlin chief of staff. Last February, he had already alerted with a photo showing the corpses of Wagner mercenaries dead, according to him, for lack of ammunition. Evguéni Prigojine had also threatened to withdraw his men from Bakhmout (Ukraine), before reconsidering his decision. If he does not hold back his criticisms, he is careful to spare Vladimir Putin.