Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of Wagner’s group, said on Wednesday he had asked prosecutors to investigate “crimes” committed by senior Russian defense officials before and during Moscow’s military campaign in Ukraine, Reuters reported.
“Today, we sent letters to the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation with a request to check the commission of crimes by a number of high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Defense during the preparation and implementation of the “special military operation”. (no, as the Russians call the war),” Prigozhin said.
“These letters will not be published due to the fact that investigative bodies will take care of it,” said the founder of Wagner.
The Russian Ministry of Defense declined to comment.
Prigozhin repeatedly accused Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, as well as other high-ranking officials, of sabotaging Russia’s military efforts.
Prigozhin blames the “dismissal” in Shoigu’s ministry for the attack on Moscow
The leader of the Russian paramilitary group “Wagner” on Tuesday reacted angrily to the address of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, accusing the “released” in this institution of having allowed the attack of Ukrainian drones on Moscow.
Expressing concern over Tuesday’s drone attack, which Russia’s Defense Ministry directly attributed to Ukraine, Prigozhin complained that Russia was “years, if not decades” behind in drone development.
Some of the drones used in the attack on Moscow fell in the residential quarters of Russian army officers, in particular in Rublyovka, a prestigious district in the west of Moscow, not far from Putin’s residence in Novo-Ogaryovo.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, a total of eight drones were used in this attack, and all of them were shot down and the damage was “minor”, with only two people slightly injured.
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He believes that it is better to call him “Putin’s butcher”
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the “Wagner group”, became the most visible representative of the close circle of Russian President Vladimir Putin 15 months after the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
A former caterer during the Russian presidency, nicknamed “Putin’s cook”, Prigozhin joked that he was better known as “Putin’s butcher” after his group’s front-line successes saw him on the front lines of the siege of the Ukrainian city Bakhmut, which he managed to capture this month after bloody battles with the Ukrainian army.
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