Wagner chief rages at Russia’s generals and threatens Bakhmut pullout
by Pjotr Sauer from World news | The Guardian on (#6BFJ8)
In extraordinary video tirade, Yevgeny Prigozhin attacks defence minister and chief of armed forces
The leader of the Wagner mercenary group has brought escalating tensions with the Kremlin military leadership dramatically into the open after he recorded an expletive-ridden video while standing in a field littered with corpses in which he personally blamed Russia's top defence chiefs for losses suffered by his fighters.
These are Wagner lads who died today. The blood is still fresh," Yevgeny Prigozhin says in the extraordinary clip, pointing to roughly three dozen bodies that he says are those of the Wagner fighters. They came here as volunteers and are dying so you can sit like fat cats in your luxury offices."
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