2023-07-20 04:00:45
2023-07-20 12:00 Compiled by United Daily News Xu Yuhan / real-time report
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Russian mercenary organization Wagner Group, disappeared after the failed mutiny last month. On the 19th, a video showed that Prigozhin was in Belarus, welcoming his soldiers to Belarus and saying that Russia was in Ukraine The actions of war are disgraceful.
In the video, posted by the Wagner Group-owned Telegram channel, a man with the build and voice of Prigozin tells his soldiers, “Welcome to the land of Belarus! We are here,” The Guardian reported. Fight for dignity, we have done a lot for Russia!”.
In the video, Prigozin continued to criticize the planning and actions of the Russian army in the war in Ukraine, saying that Wagner’s troops will not be fighting in Ukraine at present, saying that “what is happening on the front line now is a disgrace, we don’t need to participate in it. We will wait.” The moment when he will be able to fully prove himself”, noting that his fighters “will be stationed in Belarus for a while, and we will make Belarus the second largest army in the world”.
Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed last week that Prigozin refused the opportunity to continue fighting alongside the Russian military. Instead, an estimated 2,000 Wagnerian fighters have fled to Belarus, and some are said to be directing Belarusian Homeland Defense forces in the town of Asipovichi, southeast of the capital Minsk.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Russian mercenary organization Wagner Group, released last month…
CNN reported that the quality of the video was low and it was shot under a weak light source. It was impossible to confirm whether it was Priggin himself. The video was later reposted by Priggin’s personal account. If true, the footage would be Priggin’s first public appearance since last month’s mutiny.
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