Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin says the official Kremlin-backed version of why Moscow invaded Ukraine is based on lies concocted by Russia's top brass, rejecting Moscow's core justification for invading Ukraine for the first time.
"There was massive theft in the Donbas, but they wanted more."
It is a narrative that Russian authorities defend with fines or prison terms for those deemed to have spread "falsehoods" about the war. Nor was there any immediate reaction from the Kremlin, which has declined in the past to comment on Mr Prigozhin's outbursts.At least three people were killed in Russian attacks in southern Ukraine on Friday, including two who died after a trolley-bus company came under fire in the city of Kherson, regional officials said.
Yuriy Malashko, the Governor of the Zaporizhzhia region, wrote on Telegram that a 35-year-old man had been killed in a Russian artillery barrage on the village of Mala Tokmachka and that four people had been wounded elsewhere in the region.
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