2023-05-16 21:41:00
Yevgeny Prigojine posted a video alongside this so-called American volunteer, a few days after the Washington Post revelations about a possible exchange of information between Wagner and Ukraine.
The leader of the paramilitary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigojine, announced on Tuesday the death of an American volunteer serving alongside troops in Kiev, eastern Ukraine.
In a video relayed by Russian military bloggers, Yevgeny Prigojine displayed himself showing the body of a soldier he says was American, in the rubble of a building.
“He came to meet us”
In this short video, we see him walking around with his men at night and we hear muffled sounds of explosions around, without being able to determine exactly where the scene is taking place or when.
Standing next to the body of this soldier lying on his back shirtless, a wound in his stomach, he said in a solemn and ironic tone: “He came to meet us. Citizen of the United States of America.”
Without giving his full name, Yevgeny Prigojine shows the camera in the dark what appears to be the personal documents of the soldier in question.
“We will return him to the United States. We will put him in a coffin (with) the American flag. With respect, because he did not die in a grandfather’s bed but in the war”, affirms the man businessmen whose paramilitary group is on the front line on the Russian side in the bloody battle for Bakhmout.
One more provocation
In a message published Tuesday evening by his press service, Evguéni Prigojine added that “of course, I will hand over the body” of this fighter to the American authorities.
“I will do it especially for the Washington Post“, he continued in his characteristic provocative style, a few days after the American daily reported that he would have offered Ukrainian intelligence to provide him with information on the location of Russian army units, in exchange of a withdrawal of Kyiv forces from Bakhmout.
Yevgeny Prigojine had described this press information as “laughable” on Monday.
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