Background of the war in Ukraine. The head of the Wagner mercenary group accused the Kremlin of attacking the Wagner group. A kind of friendly fire that reveals the situation of extremely high tension that characterizes the Kremlin. Yevgeny Prigozhin said his men were targeted by the Russian army on May 17 as they tried to clear a road of mines and published the interrogation of the captured Russian lieutenant colonel who confesses, claiming he acted drunk.
“We found landmines. After a preliminary inspection, the Wagner group began to clear mines, but were forced to stop work because fire was opened on them from Ministry of Defense positions in the area of the village of Semihirya. Prigozhin claims that his men captured the culprit, a Russian army commander, and also released video of the interrogation of the officer who introduces himself as “commander of the 72nd motorized brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Roman Vinevitenov”. In the video, the man confesses to having “attacked” Wagner’s units and having acted “in a state of drunkenness, guided by personal animosities”.
Source: IL Tempo
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