Yevgeni Prigojine, a businessman close to the Kremlin, admitted on Monday that he founded the paramilitary group Wagner in 2014 to fight in Ukraine and recognized its presence in particular in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
In a post on the social networks of his company Concord, the person concerned says that he founded the group in order to send competent fighters to the Ukrainian Donbass in 2014.It was then, on May 1, 2014, that a group of patriots was born, which took the name of the Wagner Battalion Tactical Group.“, he said in this press release.
“And now a confession (…) these guys, heroes, defended the Syrian people, other people of Arab countries, the deprived Africans and Latin Americans, they became a pillar of our homeland“, he said again.