Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin admitted to founding the Wagner paramilitary group

Yevgeny Prigogine, a businessman close to the Kremlin, admitted on Monday 26 September to founding the Wagner paramilitary group in 2014 to fight in Ukraine and acknowledged its existence. Especially in Africa And in Latin America.

In a post on the social networks of his company Concorde, the person in question said that he founded the group in order to send competent fighters to the Ukrainian Donbass in 2014.At that time, on May 1, 2014, a group of Patriots was born, named after the Wagner Battalion Tactical Group.He said in this press release.

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“And now the recognition (…) of these men, the heroes, who defended the Syrian people, the peoples of other Arab countries, the disadvantaged Africans and Latin America, and they became a pillar of our homelandsaid again. It is suspected that for years the paramilitary group has been carrying out the Kremlin base activities in the shadows in various theaters of operation, which Moscow has always denied.

Many Western powers and the Russian media accused Evgeny Prigoin of being the financier of Wagner, whose men were seen in Syria, Libya, Ukraine and the Central African Republic in particular. Yevgeny Prigogine was for a time one of the suppliers of Kremlin kitchens, which earned him the nickname “Putin cookingThe Kremlin has always denied having links with paramilitary groups.