Ukraine was not going to attack Russia together with NATO in February 2022, Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Friday.
the angles of Prigozhin's attacks on Shoigu and the Russian Defense Ministry are"becoming wider and deeper.""The Ministry of Defense is trying to deceive the public and the president and spin the story that there were insane levels of aggression from the Ukrainian side and that they were going to attack us together with the wholeblock," the Russian businessman said."The special operation was started for a completely different reason.
Prigozhin was echoing a main reason that Putin gave for justifying his decision to invade Ukraine last February—NATO expansion near Russia's border—but avoided naming the Russian leader. Instead, Prigozhin ramped up his months-long criticism of Shoigu. The full-scale invasion of Ukraine was a"poorly planned operation" that embarrassed Russia's military, said Prigozhin. He has often complained about"Shoigu killed thousands of the most combat-ready Russian soldiers in the first days of the war," he added.
"The mentally ill scumbags decided, 'It's OK, we'll throw in a few thousand more Russian men as 'cannon fodder.' 'They'll die under artillery fire, but we'll get what we want'," the Wagner chief added."That's why it has become a protracted war."
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