Wagner boss Yevgeniy Prigozhin said the Russian mercenary group will for now not fight in Ukraine and repeated his criticism that Russia’s Ukraine invasion has been botched.
RIGA, Latvia — Wagner boss Yevgeniy Prigozhin, in what appeared to be the first video of him since he led a short-lived rebellion in late June, said the Russian mercenary group will for now not fight in Ukraine and repeated his criticism that Russia’s Ukraine invasion has been botched.The blurry clip, apparently filmed at dusk, showed a man resembling Prigozhin addressing a crowd of at least several hundred men in military fatigues.
The mutiny abruptly ended after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his ally, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, had talked Prigozhin out of continuing toward the capital. Putin then said he would let Prigozhin and Wagner troops move to Belarus, despite calling Prigozhin a traitor and vowing severe punishment.
“We were surprised by the amount of construction equipment; we see civilian vehicles and excavators and bulldozers,” Ruslan Leviev, a military analyst with the Conflict Intelligence Team, an independent monitoring group specializing in Russian military movements, said in a daily briefing. “So far, it looks like [Wagner is] moving all its property from Russian-controlled territory, probably to not let it be seized.
“And then we prepare, level up and set off on a new path to Africa,” he added. “But perhaps we will return to the war in Ukraine at the moment when we are sure that we will not be forced to disgrace ourselves and our experience.”
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