The owner of the Russian Wagner mercenary group, Yevgueni Prigozhin, continues his internal confrontation with the heads of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Prigozhin on Wednesday asked the Investigative Committee and the Russian Prosecutor’s Office to investigate possible crimes by senior officials of the Russian Defense Ministry during the war in Ukraine.
“I have requested the Investigative Committee and the Russian Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the commission of crimes during the preparations and the march of the special military operation by senior officials of the Russian Defense Ministry,” Prigozhin said in a message posted on Telegram.
The head of the Russian mercenaries added that he will not publish the content of their requests “since it is something that the investigative bodies will deal with.”
The owner of Wagner has repeatedly criticized the Russian Defense Ministry and the Russian Army General Staff, directly accusing Minister Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, head of the Russian military command, of not supplying enough weapons and handing over previously seized territories. .
Prigozhin had alerted that he had the list with all the names of those involved in the alleged crimes, whom he directly accused of treason and held responsible for the large number of casualties of the Wagner group in Bakhmut as a result of lack of ammunition suffered by this paramilitary unit. .
