Traitors in Putin’s environment?
Wagner boss Prigozhin threatens Kremlin employees
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin claims to have identified “traitors” in the environment of Russian President Putin. There are people in the Kremlin who are hoping for a quick defeat in Ukraine. Prigozhin now threatens them with death.
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Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is considered one of the most powerful men in Russia – and a competitor to President Putin.
The mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin (61) is actually considered a possible competitor of Vladimir Putin (70) for power in Russia. Now, however, the head of the notorious Wagner Group has surprisingly threatened “traitors” close to the Russian President with death.
Prigozhin’s claim: There are people in the Kremlin who hope for a quick defeat. Prigozhin now wants to put an end to these traitors.
When visiting: This video is supposed to show Prigozhin in Soledar’s salt mine(00:27)
These employees of the presidential administration would wait for their chance to serve the United States in the event of a defeat in Ukraine, he writes in a statement, according to the “Welt”.
Prigozhin threatens with “Wagner’s sledgehammer”
The businessman first called for the YouTube video platform to be blocked in Russia, before launching a verbal broadside against the Kremlin employees.
“Youtube is an information plague of our time,” railed the Wagner boss. The only reason why the platform of the Internet giant Google is not blocked is “because a large number of people work in the presidential administration who think only of one thing – that Russia may lose the war as soon as possible”.
Prigozhin threatened these “traitors to their people and their country” with “Wagner’s sledgehammer,” an allusion to a video released by the Wagner army.
It presumably depicts the killing of a renegade mercenary from the Wagner ranks. After a prisoner exchange, he is said to have been killed with a sledgehammer in Russia. The clip caused horror around the world.
Prigozhin demanded that anyone who continued to use YouTube after the blocking should be punished. The social network is one of the last sources in Russia where a wide variety of information is available to users. (nad)