For the first time, Russian Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin dismissed Russia's core justifications for invading Ukraine on Feb. 24 last year in what it calls a 'special military operation'
Says war was about army chief's vanity and personal gloryLONDON, June 23 - Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin on Friday accused the Russian military of "destroying" his fighters, without fully explaining his accusation, and vowed to stop the "evil" of the military leadership.
He said details of what had occurred were just emerging, but added: "The Minister of Defence arrived specially in Rostov to carry out an operation to destroy the Wagner PMC ." Founder of Wagner private mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin leaves a cemetery before the funeral of Russian military blogger Maxim Fomin widely known by the name of Vladlen Tatarsky, who was recently killed in a bomb attack in a St Petersburg cafe, in Moscow, Russia, April 8, 2023. REUTERS/Yulia Morozova/File Photo
Prigozhin vowed to avenge the incident: "There are 25,000 of us and we are going to figure out why chaos is happening in the country."Earlier in the day, Prigozhin, appeared to cross a new line in his increasingly vitriolic feud with Moscow, saying that the Kremlin's rationale for invading Ukraine was based on lies concocted by the army's top brass.
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