Founder of a Russian private hired company WagnerYevgeny Prigozhin said that the “special operation” – as the Kremlin calls the war – launched by Russia did not even produce the results that Moscow envisioned and that Putin initially spoke about, as a result of which Ukraine become famous all over the world, and her army – one of the strongest in the world.

In his 77-minute interview with Russian political adviser Konstantin Dolgov, Prigozhin does not mention Putin among others, but attacks, as usual, the leadership of the Ministry of Defense and the rest of the Russian elite.

“We brazenly arrived (in Ukraine), walked with boots all over its territory in search of fascists. While we were looking for the Nazis, we did terrible things to everyone who could, then we got to Kiev, then, as I say in Russian, we got lost and left, Then we got to Kherson. We lost, we left. After this or before this? Times are already confused, Raisins, Red Estuary. And somehow something is wrong.”

“The special operation was carried out on denazification and demilitarization. Ukraine has become a country known everywhere. It’s about denazification. Now, as for demilitarization…”.

“If at the beginning of the special operation they (Ukrainians) had 500 conventional tanks, now they have 5,000. If at first 20,000 people knew how to fight, now 400,000 know how. So how did we demilitarize it? It turns out that everything was the opposite, hell knows, they militarized him … “.

“I think Ukrainians today are one of the strongest armies. They have a high level of organization, a high level of training, a high level of espionage. They have different equipment and much more, they cope with any systems, Soviet, NATO, any, with equal success.