The Russian businessman Evgeny Prigozhin the day before commented on the video that spread on the network, where the mercenaries of the Wagner PMC, participating in the assault on the Ukrainian Bakhmut, made an insulting appeal to the head of the Russian General Staff, accusing him of insufficient supply of ammunition for the forefront.
“I am well owned by the situation and do not consider it necessary to comment on this information for the media,” his press service reported the words of Prigozhin a few hours after the publication of the appeal.
But later, Prigozhin denied the version according to which “Ukrainian nationalists” can stand behind the video, and published the following vocal message in the channels related to it: “Specially to answer your question, I drove to the guys in the dugout. – one of the Ukrainian nationalists? And I have not seen. Our main task and them too is to go and take Bakhmut … As for the problems that, unfortunately, arise at every step, I hope that we will solve them. We will decide. And We will force you to solve. There are no nationalists on that sensational video. “
Earlier, some Russian media, in particular “military review”, said that this video is a provocation of “Ukrainian nationalists.”