He said Russia invaded Ukraine based on lies concocted by the army's top leaders. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON - Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Friday that the official Kremlin-backed version of why Moscow invaded Ukraine was based on lies concocted by his perennial adversary - the army’s top brass.accusing Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Russia’s top general, Valery Gerasimov, of rank incompetence,
“...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,” Mr Prigozhin said, in a video clip released on Telegram by his press service, calling the official version “a beautiful story”.
Yet his latest assertion runs directly counter to the rationale for the war espoused by Mr Putin, who said when sending his armed forces into Ukraine that it was to demilitarise and denazify a country that posed a threat to Russia.
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