Businessman and founder of the private military company “Wagner”, Yevgeny Prigozhin, announced that his PMC has 67 fighters from Norway. He made the relevant statement in response to a request from the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten. The words of the entrepreneur are given as follows: telegraph channel its press office.
“There are 67 people from Norway today,” he said.
Prigozhin noted that two of them have dual citizenship, one is a Norwegian and a US citizen.
“More than half of these Norwegians have served in NATO armies, and by the way, I respect (NATO Secretary General Jens) Stoltenberg,” he said.
According to the businessman, after the end of the conflict in Ukraine, 52 people are ready to return to Norway and organize a military coup in the country, because they “rightly believe that Norway was historically the homeland of the Vikings and in their own right. opinion, “For Norge Vikinger. Homofile hører ikke hjemme her (Norwegian for Vikings. Homosexuals do not belong here).
Formerly Prigozhin saidWagner PMC has about 20 Finnish citizens in its ranks. According to him, they are fighting in a British battalion as part of the Wagner PMC, which is commanded by a US citizen, a former general of the Marine Corps.
Currently, a special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is underway in Ukraine. It was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24. According to him, the purpose of military action is to demilitarize the neighboring country and to navy the authorities.
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.