The main “Wagnerite” was carried away by the criticism of the Ministry of Defense of Russia that he neglected the real causes of the war.
leader PMC Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin gave another interview with harsh criticism not only of the Russian Defense Ministry, but also of all Kremlin oligarchs and the so-called “special operations” itself. Correspondent.net collected interesting theses of Prigogine.
1. The official reason for the “special operation” uttered by the Kremlin is completely “fake and false,” Prigozhin said. According to him, for eight years Ukraine “did not bomb the Donbass”, but “only exchanged ammunition” with the positions of the Russians. Ukraine, according to him, has a group of troops in Donbas from the active army and volunteer formations.
“This group exchanged fire: we hit them, they hit us, and this happened for all the long eight years from 2014 to 2022. Sometimes the number of different shootouts grew – roughly speaking, the exchange of bullets, the exchange of shots – sometimes reduced. ,” – he said.
2. In addition, Ukraine “does not intend to attack Russia with NATO blocs,” and “the Russian Defense Ministry is deceiving the population and Putin,” the militant said.
“Now the Ministry of Defense (of Russia – ed.) is trying to deceive the public, trying to deceive the president and tell the story that there was a crazy invasion on the part of Ukraine, and they will attack us together with the entire NATO bloc ,” he added.
3. Regarding the version of the Kremlin that the “special operation” was launched to carry out the “denazification and demilitarization” of Ukraine, Prigozhin argues that war can be dispensed with from the beginning.
4. Prigozhin expressed his opinion about what the war was for. In particular, according to him, Russia attacked Ukraine to make Viktor Medvedchuk president.
“What’s the war for? It took a war for a group of beings to simply trade and advance, showing how powerful this army is, so that Shoigu can get a marshal and a” star of a hero. , mentally ill, when he lies in a coffin, to carry this star on a pillow, “said the Wagnerian.”
5. Summarizing the reasons for the invasion, Prigozhin admitted that the slogans about the protection of the “Russian people” in Donbass were in fact reduced to a divine robbery of Ukraine. According to him, since 2014, throughout the period of occupation, the Russian budget of Donbass has been looted.
“Donbass was looted by different people: some of them are from the presidential administration, some are from the FSB, some are involved with oligarchs, like Kurchenko. These are the people who stole money from inhabitants of Donbass,” Prigozhin said.
According to him, the Russian generals benefited from the corps of the so-called “people’s militia of the DPR and LPR”.
“In fact, these corps do not exist. There is a minimum number of fighters and a certain number of generals who saw only this money. Of the salary of 40 thousand rubles, 20 thousand remained in cash register, 20 thousand seems to one. who signed – if the fighter existed and sat at home. The preparation was not fulfilled, and the generals received this money for the dead souls, “added the leader of Wagner .
6. Prigozhin also said that when Vladimir Zelensky, who had just become the president of Ukraine, was ready for a compromise.
“All that’s left to do is leave Olympus, go and negotiate with him,” he said.
7. Leader Wagner reiterated his new thesis that the situation for the Russian army at the front was quite bad.
“Two facts. On the ground today, today, the Russian army is retreating in the directions of Zaporizhzhya, Kherson. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are pushing the Ukrainian army. We are washing blood. No one is giving reserves. There is no control, “said Prigozhin.
8. He also calls the information of the RF Ministry of Defense about the alleged destruction of 60 tanks “nonsense” Leopard.
“Two agendas are being developed. One is on the ground, one is on the president’s desk. And that’s why we’ve been hearing all day about the 60 destroyed Leopards, approximately 3 thousand destroyed enemy soldiers. When you break Leopard – you took the “bird” and shot it, videos widely distributed in the media – this was the only case when the Ukrainians ran into our aircraft, they precalculated – and the aircraft, and then hit them of infantrymen. And two were destroyed Leopard plus one T-72with some Bradley. All this is shown from different angles. Nothing was destroyed 60 Leopards. This is complete, utter nonsense. Shoigu lives by the principle: to believe a lie, it must be terrible. And that’s why there are tricks,” Prigogine said.
9. Leader Wagner made another new statement: for the first time he spoke about heavy losses in the Russian army in the first days of the invasion, 80% of which he attributed to chaos in command and control.
According to Prigozhin, on the first day of the war, the Russian army lost “thousands of combat-ready soldiers thrown near Gostomel.”
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Source: korrespondent
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