The founder of the private military company Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that the American mercenary Peter Reed in Artemovsk (Ukrainian name – Bakhmut) was “killed by his own people”, not by PMC fighters. This was reported on the Telegram channel of the Prigozhin press service. DEA News.
Wagner said he has no data on how Reed was killed.
According to him, a US citizen died at the intersection of Polevaya Street and 1st Pushkinsky Lane, while the positions of the “Wagnerians” were five kilometers from this place.
In connection with this information, any military expert, according to Prigozhin, will confirm that it is almost impossible to detect this point and attack from the PMC positions.
“It was much more convenient to do this from the Ukrainian positions. I can confidently say that Peter Reed was killed by himself. And Estonian Laidinen prepared the report on this murder,” he said.
Former American newspaper The New York Times published Footage of Pete Reed’s death. According to the newspaper’s report, the former sailor was in Ukraine voluntarily and treated an injured civilian with a group of humanitarian workers in the Artyomovsk region on February 2, according to the news. In the meantime, it was claimed that a targeted blow was dealt to him.
February 16 published shooting video.