In a rare interview, the man dubbed 'Putin's chef' and head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group says it could take years for Moscow to control two eastern Ukrainian regions it has claimed as its own.
abc.net.au/news/wagner-group-boss-says-russian-invasion-could-last-years/101962380The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group says it could take two years for Moscow to control the whole of two eastern Ukrainian regions whose capture it has stated as a key goal of the war.
In a rare interview, Yevgeny Prigozhin said his understanding of Russia's plan was that it needed to fully control the Donetsk and Luhansk regions that Moscow last year claimed as "republics" of Russia, in a move condemned by most countries of the United Nations as illegal. Mr Prigozhin does not speak for the Russian military but he has sharply raised his public profile in recent months, including by criticising the army leadership for its failures in nearly 12 months of war.