The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia, Urmas Reinsalu, reacted to the provocation of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the “Wagner” PMC mercenaries, who the other day “prepared” the European Parliament with a sledgehammer with traces of blood after the MEPs declared Russia a sponsor state. terrorism, Ukrainian Pravda reports.

Reinsalu posted a video on Twitter saying he would hand Prigozhin over in handcuffs to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to answer for crimes in Ukraine.

On Thursday, a video began to circulate on social networks, in which it was reported that an employee of Prigozhin handed over a “briefcase with information” to a representative of the European Parliament, the images of which show a violin case containing a sledgehammer with traces. blood, although it is not clear whether they are real or drawn with paint.

However, many observers of the war in Ukraine wondered how Prigozhin’s representative could give such a “gift” to an official of the European Parliament, questioning the authenticity of the images.

However, the founder of the well-known investigative site Bellingcat, Eliot Higgins, clarified the situation, explaining that the video was published by the press service of Concordia, Prigozhin’s company that caters for the Kremlin, noting that it is a package prepared for the European Parliament, which was handed to the administrator of the Telegram channel Cyberfront Z .

The bloody sledgehammer appears to be a direct reference to a shocking video that surfaced earlier in November on Russian Telegram channels, showing the sledgehammer execution of a deserter mercenary Wagner after his former comrades put his head on a brick and they taped her with tape. .

Russian diplomacy on Friday condemned the European Parliament’s resolution this week to recognize Russia as a “state sponsor of terrorism”, while Moscow said it had “nothing to do” with the fight against terrorism.