Evgueni Prigojine, founder and director of the Wagner Group, a private military company, denied on Tuesday any involvement of his company in the brutal execution of a suspected member of his organization accused of desertion in Ukraine, after having nevertheless greeted her in a first time. The case began with the publication of a video, relayed by accounts close to the Wagner Group on social networks, of a man accused of having surrendered to Ukrainian forces before being taken back by the Russians. We see this man, who introduces himself as Evgueni Nouzhin, being killed in a particularly brutal way, his skull struck with a hammer.
In a first message published on Sunday, Evgueni Prigojine, a businessman close to the Kremlin, had greeted a “magnificent work”calling the slain man a ” dog “. But in a new press release published on Tuesday, Mr. Prigojine denies any involvement of his group in the execution and points to the American secret services as responsible, without substantiating his accusations. ‘This is on the ropes of US intelligence, which abducts people, including Russian citizens, across the world’, says Mr. Prigojine, who calls on Russian prosecutors to open an investigation. He adds :
Wagner employees are distinguished by their excellent discipline and strict adherence to international standards and globally accepted rules of social behavior.