The Wagner Group 'will not sign any contracts' with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a statement.
of mercenaries has hit back at the Russian Defense Ministry as the spat between Russia's military and mercenary organizations working alongside it in Ukraine widens.
On Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry said"volunteer formations" would need to sign contracts with the Russian government by July 1, sanctioned by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. The Wagner Group is typically referred to by the ministry, and in the Russian media, as a volunteer assault detachment. The move was designed to increase the effectiveness of the Russian armed forces, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Russian billionaire and businessman, Yevgeny Prigozhin, attends a meeting with foreign investors at Konstantin Palace in 2016 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. His Wagner Group"will not sign any contracts" with the Russian Defense Ministry, Prigozhin said on Sunday.The decree will likely target paramilitaries such as the Wagner Group, which had taken on a crucial role in Russian operations in hotspots in eastern Ukraine, including in the embattled city of Bakhmut.
"Those orders and decrees that Shoigu forms, they apply to employees of the Ministry of Defense and to military personnel," Prigozhin said in a statement posted in a request for comment on the Defense Ministry's move.The Wagner Group"coordinates its action" with the"Shoigu cannot manage military formations," Prigozhin added.
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