Yevgeny Prigozhin said the attack happened after he criticised the country's top brass in an explosive outburst on the Telegram messaging app
The Russian defence ministry has denied orchestrating an attack on Wagner fighters - describing the allegations as"untrue and an informational provocation".
In a video, he had said the Kremlin's rationale for invading Ukraine last February was based on lies - and the"evil" of Russia's military leadership must be stopped. Prigozhin said:"The defence ministry is trying to deceive society and the president and tell us a story about how there was crazy aggression from Ukraine and that they were planning to attack us with the whole of NATO."
The Wagner Group, a private military company, played an instrumental role in helping Russia capture the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut last month. Prigozhin's latest video claims that tens of thousands of young Russian lives have been sacrificed needlessly, while the nation's top brass swill vodka and cognac while dining on caviar.
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