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Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhi and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov 'have openly declared war' on Russia's defence minister Sergei Shoigu after Russia's catastrophic series of defeats in Ukraine
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The two lieutenants have paired up in an open feud with the Defence Ministry

  • They have criticised the Ministry's work after a series of embarrassing defeats

  • It comes after Russia illegally annexed four Ukrainian regions to Russia last week

  • Russia is resorting to desperate tactics such as recruiting criminals to the army
The feud between Prigozhin and Shoigu is said to stretch back long before the start of the seven-month war in Ukraine, and is said to have started after Prigozhin formed the Wagner unit during the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014.

Former Wagner Commander Marat Gabidullin told The Guardian: 'On the current wave of patriotism, he wants to position himself as a fierce defender of the motherland who created a professional military organisation.

'He wants to show that he can fight better than the regular army. We always had tensions with the ministry of defence, we really didn't like each other.'
Posted by: Skidmark 2022-10-08
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=646178