Russia did not face an imminent security threat to justify its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Russia’s Wagner mercenary outfit, said in a bombshell video posted on social media Friday. “The Armed Forces of Ukraine were not going to attack Russia with the NATO bloc,” Prigozhin explained in the half-hour tirade released by his press service. “The Russian Defense Ministry is deceiving the public and the president,” he added.
I wonder what his angle is. All I can assume is that things are very bleak on the battlefield and he’s choosing his men over Putin.
Maybe he senses the imminent end of putin and want’s to have the possibility of an executive seat in the next government.