Wagner’s boss denies that he offered kyiv the location of Russian troops

2023-05-15 16:49:17

The head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, He denied that he had offered Ukraine information about the location of Russian troops in order to attack them in exchange for the Ukrainians withdrawing their soldiers from the surroundings of the city of Bakhmut.

According to documents leaked by the Discord platform and quoted by the Washington Post, At the end of January Prigozhin would have made that offer during a trip to Africa to his contacts in the Ukrainian Military Intelligence Directorate, given the numerous casualties his group of mercenaries was suffering in the besieged Ukrainian city.

Posteriorly the outlet removed the paragraph that mentioned Africa as a meeting place of Prigozhin with the Ukrainian side.

“I can safely say (…) I have not been in Africa at least since the start of the conflict (in Ukraine) and in fact, for several months before the start of the special military operation. That’s why I couldn’t meet anyone there,” he said today on his Telegram channel.

Prigozhin took the opportunity to lash out at The Washington Post, which, he insinuated, “prostitutes itself.”

“Comrades, do not move too far under the client. First they filter information, then they delete it, then they filter a new one, in which the conclusions are not understood,” he said.

The day before he had already reacted to the news, but he limited himself to mocking the American newspaper.

Wagner’s boss estimated that the source of this news could be “some journalist (who) tried to score points with this.” or high-level Russian officials who have become rich selling “oil to the Islamic State.”

Prigozhin added that he was aware of the possibility of this type of information attacks thanks to “honest collaborators of USAwho work with The Washington Post”.

He head of the paramilitary groupr once again resorted to irony by recommending to his political enemies in Russia that they hire the currently imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalni, who is much more “effective and professional” in these matters, for these purposes.