“Private military company Wagner helps and will help the population of the border areas (with Ukraine) to receive training, build facilities, prepare people and organize militias”
The head of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said today that his company will train fighters and build fortifications in two regions of Russia bordering Ukraine.
“The private military company Wagner helps and will help the population of the border areas (with Ukraine) to receive training, build facilities, prepare people and organize militias,” Prigozhin said, according to the company’s press office. of Concord.
He did not publish more evidence to prove his words.
He said these new activities began in the Russian regions of Belgorod and Kursk, which have been regularly hit in recent months by fire attributed by Moscow to the Ukrainian army.
The purpose is, according to Prigozhin, to build “fortified works and create militia training centers in the border areas”. “Whoever wants peace prepares for war. He must always be ready to defend his land,” he added.
Since 2014, Wagner Group mercenaries have been accused of serving the interests of Vladimir Putin’s regime in many conflict zones, from Syria to Ukraine, Africa and South America.
In recent months, the group has been actively operating on the Ukrainian front, in support of the Russian military. Prigozhin is accused of touring Russian prisons to recruit prisoners to fight in Ukraine, offering them reduced sentences in exchange.
In September, Yevgeny Prigozhin, 61, admitted, after years of denying it, that he founded the paramilitary group. This week he also said he had conducted electioneering operations in the United States.
It now operates in Russia completely overtly, a sign of a certain increase in power after the Kremlin’s attack on Ukraine and the start of conscription in the country after the defeats of the Russian army at the front.
Thus, in October he inaugurated with great splendor in a glass building in St. Petersburg, the headquarters of the “private military company Wagner”.
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