The European Parliament designates Russia as a terrorist state – and one of Russia’s most powerful sends a “gift” that seems to confirm this.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the notorious private army “Wagner” boasts in one of his propaganda channels on Telegram with a video like something out of a mafia movie.
To see: A man brings a violin case into an office, opens it on a table. Inside is a sledgehammer – with an engraved logo of the Wagner Group and the words “Blood – Honor – Fatherland – Courage”. The handle is (apparently?) smeared with blood.
The scene, which the Belarusian opposition channel Nexta reported, is said to have taken place in Brussels. The man who delivered the hammer – and probably a threatening message – is apparently a lawyer for the Wagner group.
According to the Telegram channel close to Wagner, the sledgehammer is supposed to be “information” from Prigozhin to the EU Parliament. mafia language…
What happened before that? MEPs voted overwhelmingly to Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.
After the vote, there was a hacker attack on the website of the EU Parliament. A first reaction from Russia?
The sledgehammer is considered a symbol of the Wagner mercenaries.
A few days ago had a video made the rounds, in which a soldier branded a “traitor” who apparently defected to Ukraine, a former Russian prisoner Yevgeny Nushin, was executed with such a hammer on his head. The video was titled “Hammer of Revenge”.
Prigozhin made fun of it. The defector encountered “unfriendly but fair people,” he said. And further: It was a film scene entitled “A dog receives the death of a dog”. “I hope no animals were harmed during filming,” he cynically commented.