In a video published by a Russian blogger on Friday, Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin says that the group will disappear within a short time, writes the Reuters news agency.
The group is a private army that, among other things, fights for Russia in Ukraine. The mercenaries in the Wagner Group are notorious for their brutality and ruthless behaviour.
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It does not appear in the video when the interview with Prigozhin was done or how serious the leader of the mercenaries was.
At least what he says is the following, according to Reuters.
– Wagner will soon disappear. We will become history. There is nothing to worry about, things like this happen, he tells the Russian war blogger Semjon Pegov.
The quote is said to have come in connection with talk that his troops lack ammunition in Ukraine.
Prigozhin has long complained about and demanded more ammunition from the Kremlin for his forces in Ukraine. He has also been no stranger to saying very sensational things in the media.
Like when in mid-March he went out to say that he wanted to become president of Ukraine.
– We have seen before that Prigozhin conducts political communication with a lot of humor, and here he openly plays with the speculation that he should be a possible rival to Putin, said Niklas Rendboe, a researcher at the Danish Defense Academy specializing in the Wagner group, to Danish TV 2 that time.
Friday’s clip has been published in the Telegram channel of the aforementioned Pegov. Wagner has not responded to Reuters’ inquiry about the matter.
2023-04-29 01:12:27
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