Ukrainian fighters say they are going head-to-head with waves of Russian mercenaries every day, with one making a startling claim about drug use within the company's ranks. 9News
"Our machine gunner was almost getting crazy, because he was shooting at them. And he said, I know I shot him, but he doesn't fall. And then after some time, when he maybe bleeds out, so he just falls down.""They're climbing above the corpse of their friends, stepping on them," he says.
"The problem was that they went around us. And that's how they surrounded us. They came from the other side. We didn't expect them to come from there. Andriy's account of Wagner's approach matches that of a Ukrainian intelligence report obtained by CNN last week.to receive our daily newsletters and breaking news alerts, sent straight to your inbox.
Prigozhin responded in a statement that was largely sarcastic in tone via his press service, calling CNN an "open enemy" before insisting Wagner is an "exemplary military organization that complies with all the necessary laws and rules of modern wars." Andriy's unit says it captured one Wagner fighter, whose story is as tragic as Wagner's tactics are primitive and brutal.
"Our advantage is that yes, we do, we really can choose the guy whom the [Russians] call a clown. But as we can see, now, this guy is really the leader of the free world, at the moment, on our planet.
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