'There are 25,000 of us and we are coming to sort things out. ... Those who want to join us, it's time to finish with this mess,' Wagner's mercenary group founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin said.
Prigozhin published a shaky video on Friday that showed a shattered group of trees and a burning trench, claiming it was a Wagner camp shelled by Russian troops and alleging many Wagner troops were killed.A Kremlin spokesperson said Russian President"President Putin has been informed of all the events around Prigozhin. Necessary measures are being taken," the spokesperson said.
Prigozhin, a key ally of Putin, in a video posted Friday, contradicted the public explanations for the war, including the central claim made by Putin that the 2022 invasion was necessary to prevent an attack from Ukraine. "The Special Military Operation that began on Feb. 24 was started for completely different reasons," he said.Prigozhin has been in a public feud with Russia's defense ministry and its head Sergey Shoigu for months, blaming them for Russia's disastrous prosecution of the war.
PHOTO: Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, addresses Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a video released by Prigozhin Press Service, March 3, 2023, from an unspecified location in Ukraine.
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