Head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, He denied that he had offered Ukraine information about the location of Russian troops to attack them In exchange for the Ukrainians withdrawing their troops from the vicinity of the city of Bakhmut.
according to documentation leaked by the Discord platform and quoted by the Washington Post, At the end of January, Prigozhin was to make this offer to his contacts at the Ukrainian Military Intelligence Directorate during a trip to Africa, given the large number of casualties in the besieged Ukrainian city of the mercenary group.
later output removed the specified paragraph Africa As the meeting place of Prigozhin with the Ukrainian side.
“I can confidently say (…) At least I haven’t been in Africa since the beginning of the conflict (in Ukraine) and indeed, a few months before the special military operation began. That’s why I couldn’t meet anyone there,” he said on his Telegram channel today.
Prigozhin seized the opportunity He attacks the Washington Post, which he implies is “self-prostituted”.
“Comrades, Do not move too much under the client. They first filter the information, then delete it, then filter the new one, where the results are incomprehensible,” he said.
He had already reacted to the news the previous day, but limited himself to mocking the American newspaper.
Wagner’s boss speculated that the source of this story might have been “a (who) journalist trying to score points with this”. or high-ranking Russian officials who got rich by selling “oil to ISIS.”
Prigozhin added that he was aware of the possibility of such information attacks. “honest collaborators United States of AmericaWorking with The Washington Post”.
HE paramilitary group leaderr once again used irony by advising its political enemies in Russia to hire for these purposes the much more “effective and professional” in these matters, the now imprisoned Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalni.