Russia did not face an imminent security threat to justify its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Russia’s Wagner mercenary outfit, said in a bombshell video posted on social media Friday. “The Armed Forces of Ukraine were not going to attack Russia with the NATO bloc,” Prigozhin explained in the half-hour tirade released by his press service. “The Russian Defense Ministry is deceiving the public and the president,” he added.

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    This just goes to show that Wagner is a mercenary group. They’ll fight for who pays them, but they don’t have to be loyal. It makes me wonder if someone with a larger pocketbook could fund Wagner to not fight.