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.

  • guyman@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I wonder what his angle is. All I can assume is that things are very bleak on the battlefield and he’s choosing his men over Putin.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe he senses the imminent end of putin and want’s to be a possibility for an executive seat on the next government.