“The Wagner organization does not really exist, as a serious military force, as it was a year ago. It has disintegrated,” Ukraine’s defense minister said in an interview
The Wagner paramilitary organization was disbandedsaid today Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov in an interview broadcast today, following the death of its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.
“The Wagner organization does not really exist, as a serious military force, as it was a year ago. It has broken up,” Reznikov said in an interview with the German Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag.
According to the Ukrainian minister, Prigozhin’s death “weakened” Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“As this showed the world that if Putin makes a deal with someone and then breaks it, then no one can trust him,” Reznikov added, according to excerpts of the interview released in advance.
After the presumed death of Prigozhin in a plane crash in Russia, rumors have been swirling about a possible Kremlin involvement in the crash of the private jet between Moscow and St. Petersburg. These claims were denied by the Russian president’s spokesman, who described them as “absolute lies”.
Putin had branded Prigozhin, whom he had known since the early 1990s, as a traitor over his June 23-24 armed uprising.
Prigozhin ended his rebellion after a deal with the Kremlin saw him exiled with his men to Belarus and the prosecution stopped.
Source :Skai
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