The Wagner mercenary group has taken captive a Russian army brigade commander in one of the most serious cases of infighting within President Putin’s forces since the start of the war in Ukraine.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner group, released a video showing the interrogation of Lieutenant Colonel Roman Venevitin, commander of Russia’s 72nd Brigade. Venevitin, whose face was bruised, “confessed” to ordering his troops to fire on Wagner fighters as they were withdrawing from Bakhmut, the eastern Ukraine town that has witnessed the heaviest fighting of the war.
The Russian commander said he was motivated by a “personal dislike” of
Wagner and that he had been drunk at the time of the attack. Prigozhin said that one of Wagner’s vehicles was damaged when Russian soldiers opened fire but that there were no casualties. The Russian ministry of defence has not commented on the video.
The Wagner mercenary group has taken captive a Russian army brigade commander in one of the most serious cases of infighting within President Putin’s forces since the start of the war in Ukraine. Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner group, released a video showing the interrogation of...
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