Yevgeny Prigozhin's feud with Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu began at least five years ago, the Wagner Group boss said.
as the Russian mercenaries were annihilated by U.S.-led forces, including by Reaper drones and Apache helicopter gunships.
Yevgeny Prigozhin on one of his many posts on Telegram, pictured in 2023. Prigozhin has said his feud with Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu began at least five years ago during the Battle of Khasham in Syria.
Tensions between the pair had flared up, particularly in the last six months, but the message posted by Prigozhin nearly two weeks before his mutiny attempt reveals a strained relationship dating back to the bloody massacre in Syria. The Wagner boss claimed Russia's Defense Ministry had knowledge of the impending U.S. strike, and that the U.S. contacted the"However, the leadership of the Ministry of Defense ignored the need to warn us about this," said Prigozhin."Air defense systems, as I said, were all disabled and what happened happened: at 23:45, strikes began on Russian units...there were no planes, air defense systems did not work," he said.
"At 03:00 at night, we finally managed to break through to the headquarters of the [Russian] Armed Forces in order to talk with the officer on duty."
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