Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian businessman nicknamed “Putin’s cook” and head of the “Wagner” PMC mercenaries, on Monday admitted for the first time that he tried to influence the elections in the United States, saying that he will continue to do so, Reuters reports.

In the comments to Vkontakte of the press service of his catering company Concord, Prigozhin noted that:

“I interfered in the elections [din Statele Unite], we continue to intervene and will continue to do so in the future. Carefully, carefully, surgically and in our own way, because we know what we have to do.”

The comment was published ahead of the US midterm elections in response to a request by a Russian news site to comment on allegations of funding for the 2016 US presidential election.

“We will simultaneously remove both kidneys and the liver during our precise operations,” Prigozhin said without further comment on the cryptic message.

The USA introduced sanctions against Yevgeny Prigozhin

The US formally accused Prigozhin of sponsoring “troll farms” seeking to influence US elections, and in July the State Department in Washington offered a $10 million reward for information related to his links to environmental online operations.

Sanctions were imposed against him by the United States, Great Britain and the European Union.

Before the start of the “military special operation” on February 24, Yevgeny Prigozhin rarely appeared in the Russian media, but in recent months he has become one of the loudest critics of how the Ministry of Defense in Moscow conducts the military operation. war in Ukraine.

In September, he confirmed for the first time that he is the founder of Wagner’s mercenary group, which operates in Syria, Africa and Ukraine.

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