But this is a personal project to gain influence over the Ministry of Defense so that Wagner will become the main victorious force,” the unnamed source said. “He has his own project, Bakhmut, and he is doing everything for that. It’s now become clear, one source said, that he’s not acting “as a member of the team or for common interests.” He and his supporters have repeatedly hinted at the specter of a civil war if Russia loses in Ukraine, and he has accused “traitors” in the Russian establishment of trying to tank Wagner’s efforts to seize the embattled Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.Īfter weeks of such outbursts, Prigozhin’s ultimatums to the Defense Ministry are now seen as a “serious threat,” sources close to the presidential administration told Meduza. Though Prigozhin has butted heads with defense officials for months, his attacks have escalated in recent weeks as his public tirades expose growing infighting and dysfunction. (The jibe was widely seen as a possible swipe at Vladimir Putin, though Prigozhin on Wednesday said the label “could” have been directed at either the former deputy defense minister, current Chief of the General Staff, or possibly a former reality TV contestant.) That’s according to a new report out Wednesday by Meduza, which cited sources close to the Kremlin as saying that Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin’s trash-talking rants about the war have begun to “seriously bother the country’s top leadership.”Ī day earlier, Prigozhin publicly accused troops from Russia’s regular army of “hauling ass” from their positions in Bakhmut, mocked Victory Day celebrations on Red Square, and lashed out at an unnamed “happy grandpa” in charge of the war effort who he said was actually a “complete jackass.” Russia’s shadow army boss has incensed some figures in the Kremlin so much with his increasingly scathing takedowns of the country’s top military brass that staffers in the presidential administration are preparing to take him down.
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