Yegueni Prigozhin, a businessman close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, admitted on Monday that in 2014 he created the Wagner Group, a private military company, which is forbidden by law in Russia, and which is also present in the military campaign in Ukraine.
However, in his words, he soon realised that half of the ‘Cossacks’ and paramilitaries were fraudsters and that half of those who received the money hired volunteers who were sent to certain death without equipment.
He stressed that it was only thanks to the courage of the Wagner Group members that “the liberation of the Lugansk airport and many other territories” in eastern Ukraine was possible.
