The Wagner manager has had a few very difficult weeks. On Monday, he burst into a rage and launched a frontal attack on the defense management.
– Everyone points their finger upwards and says: You, Yevgevnij Viktorovich, have a difficult relationship with those up there. You must go and apologize and confess. Only then will your soldiers get ammunition.
This is how the latest, dramatic PR move from the billionaire Yevgeny Prigozhin reads. He is the commander of Putin’s much-talked-about Wagner army, made up of mercenaries and prisoners.
– But who should I apologize to? Who must I obey? Hear me, you 140 million Russians, tell me who I must apologize to so that I don’t lose twice as many of my soldiers as I do now?
The Wagner army is bombed to pieces in the battles for Bakhmut. In recent days, the attacks by the mercenaries and the prisoners have become fewer.
– This is an attempt to destroy Wagner, says Prigozhin.
The man who was called Putin’s chef appears increasingly under pressure. Could he now have gone too far?
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