Russia did not face an imminent security threat to justify its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Russia’s Wagner mercenary outfit, said in a bombshell video posted on social media Friday. “The Armed Forces of Ukraine were not going to attack Russia with the NATO bloc,” Prigozhin explained in the half-hour tirade released by his press service. “The Russian Defense Ministry is deceiving the public and the president,” he added.
This is huge. If this video reaches the Russian population it could lead to the end of the war. Prigozhin is not someone to be taken lightly.
This particular wording is interesting. Prigozhin doesn’t blame Putin. He blames the Defense Ministry. This might be a way out of this war for Putin.
That seems to me more a way in for him in the ministry of Defense. Scapegoating current defense minister and replacing him…