Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin reportedly offered up to Ukraine details about the locations of Russian troops.
said on Monday that the claims seem"like more nonsense," which even"respected publications" have not refrained from publishing, Russian state news outlet RIA Novosti reported.
Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2010. The Washington Post reported that Prigozhin had offered to reveal Russian troop positions to Ukraine.The report also said that Prigozhin held phone calls and meetings with Ukrainian intelligence officers in Africa, discussed Russia's ammunition shortages and urged harder Ukrainian strikes against Russian troops.
Prigozhin also reportedly urged Kyiv to strike Crimea and offered details of Russian troop positions to Ukraine in Bakhmut. Kyiv reportedly rejected Prigozhin's proposals because they did not trust him, a position shared by Washington.'s report, saying on Telegram:"Budanov and I are still in Africa," referring to the GUR head Kyrylo Budanov."We have nothing to hide from the foreign social services," he added.
Prigozhin had an unlikely defender in military blogger and former Russian commander Igor Girkin, who has repeatedly"No matter how negatively I personally feel about Prigozhin, I don't believe that he tried to"exchange" Bakhmut for surrendering secret military information to the Ukrainians," Girkin wrote on Telegram.
"Despite the fact that Prigozhin is an obvious psychopath—he is not a complete cretin to enter into direct contacts with the enemy side" which would risk him facing"accusations of treason."
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