Yevgeny Prigozhin appeared to escalate his feud with the Russian Defense Ministry, threatening to 'march his troops' on Moscow if more ammo wasn't provided.
speculated that Russian leadership could launch a"tactical nuclear strike" on a town in the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, and where Russian forces are currently locked in battle with pro-Ukraine Russian insurgents.
"I am afraid that they might harbor some foul thoughts about dropping a little nuke on their own territory. Could it be the reason why we are ceding territory in Belgorod region—because we are too scared to hit their [territory], but not our own," Prigozhin said in a video interview with the Donbass Today Telegram channel.
A file image of Yevgeny Prigozhin from 2017 and an inset photo of the detonation of nuclear device"Badger" during Operation Upshot-Knothole in Nevada, in 1953."Lobbing [the bomb] at foreign [territory] is scary, but we can hit our own, to show how sick and psychotic we are. The Ukrainian forces might be occupying some small [Russian] village, and that's where [Russia] will aim the tactical nuclear strike," the Putin ally said.
"We give the ministry two weeks to liberate our territories [in the Belgorod region]. But if they fail or we aren't confident [in their efforts] I will demand that we are allowed to go there because otherwise, they'll keep lying to the Russian people," he said. "If that does not happen, and if the situation continues to worsen, then we will go to Belgorod. And it's not far from Belgorod Oblast to Rublyovka , to the Frunzenskaya embankment , what if we go there to demand more ammunition?"
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