The Russian leadership never had his back.
Prigozhin is revealing the truth about what really happened, but don’t go thinking this guy is a good guy. This is the same Wagner that films Al-Qaeda style videos of executing people with mallets. In Syria, they’d do that to civilians too, including one poor fellow who was filmed getting his limbs worked on with a mallet before they cut his head off.
Prizozhin has a criminal record. He’s clearly a mafioso type. He’s making a mafia style play. And he’s exploiting the lies and propaganda of the Russian government to get support.
The Russian leadership never had his back.
I completely agree,
Prigozhin is a monster.
It’s just fabulous though he is suddenly saying that Ukraine is a victim of an unjustified Russian invasion.
Hearing him say that is actually more impressive than his apparent coup-attempt in Russia.
I dont see how he can do much with only 50.000 Wagner troops though. Kremlin could tell the banks to stop Wagner from paying its mercenaries... unless they were paid in cash?
Apparently the Wagner building in St Petersburg has been raided by FSB guys now...
We shall see....