Posted on 06/05/2023 5:42:23 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner group of mercenaries has captured a Russian commander, as the notorious leader further escalates his feud with the regular army.
In a video posted on Prigozhin’s social media channels, Lt Col Roman Venevitin, the commander of Russia’s 72nd Brigade, tells an interrogator that, while drunk, he had ordered his troops to fire on a Wagner convoy.
In the footage, which resembled clips of prisoner of war soldiers, Venevitin said he acted because of his “personal dislike” for Wagner and then apologised.
Last week, Prigozhin accused the Russian army of trying to blow up his men as they were pulling back from the eastern Ukrainian town of Bakhmut.
The businessman, who is best known as “Putin’s chef” because of his catering contracts with the Kremlin, also claimed his men had discovered explosives, which he said were planted on purpose by defence ministry officials.
The Russian ministry of defence has yet to comment on the footage.
Two close family members of Venevitin confirmed to the Guardian that the man filmed in the video was their relative.
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That’s the thanks you get in Russia.
Wagnerites busted the nose of the Russian commander pretty good.
LOL. Russia humiliated again.
Local boy. The name Venevitin is common in the Voronezh Oblast, which borders Ukraine.
Waiting for the russian trolls to tell us this is fake news and not to believe your lying eyes.
They’re more messed up than the US. I wonder how China and their supporters could possibly be behind all the turmoil everywhere.
Russians capture each other.
Those are some elite forces.
And so it begins.
Reports a Russian colonel was ambushed and killed inside Russia by partisans today, too. Total buffoonery from Putin’s Russia.
Are you finished getting off looking at the picture of Putin riding horseback with his shirt off?
Well, he was drunk and shooting at them—a broken nose is a small price to pay.
Wagner killed all of his men and took him prisoner.
What Belgorod doink?
If you believe this story the way it is written... I have a bridge for sale along with some other great public landmarks that I am willing to part with for a very small amount of money.
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