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“They are waiting for Prigozhin”Bloody hammer to the EU – this is how Estonia responds to the Wagner Group
Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu has returned the favor for the “gift” that Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Russian Wagner Group, made to the EU Parliament.
That’s what it’s about
The Estonian Foreign Minister sends a set of handcuffs to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
This is his answer to the blood-smeared gavel sent to the European Parliament by the head of the Russian Wagner Group.
The handcuffs “wait for Prigozhin and his accomplices,” according to Urmas Reinsalu.
He also proposes that all NATO countries give 1 percent of their gross domestic product (GDP) to Ukraine for arms sales and other military aid.
we recall us: The founder of the paramilitary Russian Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in a violin case recently sent a blood-smeared hammer to the seat of the European Parliament. That is said to have been his reaction to the fact that the EU had condemned Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism by a clear majority.
With the hammer gift, Prigozhin was obviously alluding to an incident that had caused international horror: That was how it was Video appeared, in which Wagner mercenaries are said to have killed a deserted and later captured colleague with a sledgehammer. “A dog deserves a dog’s death,” Prigozhin commented imperturbably.
«They will wait for Prigozhin and his accomplices»
The Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu has now sent an answer to Prigozhin himself, as he reported on Twitter. He also opens a box and reveals handcuffs inside. “I will send them to the headquarters of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where they will wait for Prigozhin and his accomplices for the crimes against the Ukrainian people,” says Reinsalu.
In any case, the Estonians are making sharp comments about Moscow. At the meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Bucharest, they called on the other alliance states to spend significantly more money to support Ukraine.
Proposal: One percent of GDP for Ukraine
Foreign Minister Reinsalu said that if all NATO countries committed one percent of their gross domestic product (GDP) to arms deliveries and other military aid, that could make a strategic difference.
The Estonian demand goes far beyond the goals of most NATO countries. Many of them are already struggling to meet the 2 percent of GDP target for their own defense spending.
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