11 minutes agoRussian oligarch Prigozhin acknowledges founding the group “Wagner” in 2014
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Yevgeny Prigozhin, one of Russia's most prominent oligarchs, acknowledges that he founded the private military company known as Wagner in 2014. The same one had always denied his connection to this company. Pigozin is so close to the Kremlin that it is known as President Vladimir Putin's cook, reports [...]
Pigozin is so close to the Kremlin that he is known as President Vladimir Putin's cook, CNN reports.
His statement, published on social networks through his company, "Concord Catering," starts with the sentence: “We're shorting out about the origin”.
In the long post, he writes that the separatist movements supported by Russia in 2014 in Donbas east of Ukraine were his design.
Pgozyn admitted that he had personally cleaned up his weapons, packed his bulletproof vests, and found other experts to help. From that moment, on May 1, 2014, a group of patriots was born.
CNN has tracked Wagner's mercenaries to the Central African Republic, Sudan, Libya, Mozambique, Ukraine and Syria. All these years this group has made a terrible reputation and has been linked to various human rights abuses.
Pigozin was sanctioned in 2019 by the United States for his role in trying to undermine presidential elections in 2019.
However, observators say Wagner has often acted as an informal Russian foreign policy weapon, even though mercenaries are technically illegal in Russia.
