"Our Holy War against those who harm the Russian people has simply turned into a racket." The head of the Wagner PMC accused the country's military and political leadership of corruption and the destruction of the army.

Press office Evgenia Prigozhina опубликовала A 30-minute video monologue that he calls “the first part of a long interview.”

In it, the head of the Wagner PMC calls the country's military-political leadership "scum" and states that the war was unleashed in the interests of the oligarchs.

According to Prigozhin, oligarchs, together with FSB and Presidential Administration officers, had been "dividing up" and "plundering" Donbass since 2014, but they wanted more.

The head of the Wagner PMC believes that the Russian army collapsed even before the war, and that the incompetent leadership of the Ministry of Defense military leaders led to the death of its most combat-ready remnants immediately after the invasion of Ukraine.

According to Prigozhin, the Russian army is losing to Ukraine, retreating, and "washing itself in blood." And the information Putin receives from military commanders is inaccurate.

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