“It is necessary for the authorities and society as a whole to achieve a kind of bold complete cessation of the military special operation,” the Russian oligarch affirmed in a message published on the RFI-listed Telegram news system.
“The goals have been achieved”
For the head of the Wagner mercenary group, who recently revealed the loss of 30,000 men since the start of the war in Ukraine, it would be necessary “to let the whole world know that Russia has achieved the expected results”. “We wiped out a large number of fighters from the Ukrainian Armed Forces and we can declare that the objectives have been achieved.” According to him, Russia “separated the Sea of Azov and a large part of the Black Sea. It retained a juicy chunk of Ukrainian territory and created a land corridor to Crimea.”
He is convinced that Ukraine has everything to lose if the war stops because, according to him, “these areas, which are now under Russian control, can be at his disposal for years”.
“Nothing threatens” Russia
Yevgeny Prigozhin is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest allies, but has repeatedly been highly critical of the Russian elites and the Russian Defense Ministry’s leadership of operations. He believes a potential military failure could evoke a similar revolutionary sentiment to that of 1917, the date of the Soviet revolution, although he assured that “nothing” threatens “Russia’s supreme power”.