Text taken from the V Kontakte page of Reports from the militia of Novorossiya.
The head of Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin gave an hour and a half interview to media technologist Konstantin Dolgov. Although throughout the conversation they go over and over again through the Russian elites and the decision-making system, there are quite interesting details in the interview that can be perceived without emotional overtones.
▪By June 1 - with a backlash of up to 10 days - PMCs should "as correctly as possible" transfer Bakhmut to units of the RF Armed Forces. If the Russian Ministry of Defense is unable to do this, then this fact, according to Prigozhin, will discredit the Russian Armed Forces and make PMCs more combat-ready than regular troops. And from the point of view of public administration, this is incorrect.
▪At the time of the beginning of the siege of Bakhmut, there were 35 thousand fighters in the ranks of PMCs. For all the time of the NWO, 50,000 prisoners were recruited among the prisoners. 20% of them (10,000 prisoners) died in battle. Another 10,000 full-time PMC fighters also died.
According to the results of the battle for Bakhmut (Artemovsk), the loss of the Armed Forces of Ukraine killed - 50,000 people, wounded - 50,000-70,000 thousand.
▪If Artyomovsk is surrendered, then Wagner PMC will first go “within the law and in jackets with bloody hands” to Frunzenskaya Embankment to ask uncomfortable questions, and then they will go again to save the Motherland.
▪Territorial defense is the most pragmatic decision that could be made under the current conditions. It is not the task of the FSB to fight off the DRG, but the Ministry of Defense. And the locals could help.
▪According to Prigozhin, Mezentsev and Surovikin are ideal candidates for the positions of Minister of Defense and Chief of the General Staff. The minister of defense, he said, should not be a "political figure" but deal with the military machine.
▪"Society always demands justice," and if there is no justice, then "revolutionary moods arise."
▪Hooray-patriotism is good only for a short period of time. And jingoistic patriotism based on invented facts makes “people play the fool and do nothing” – this is the "Navalny effect."
▪The war is racist in nature, both sides call each other racists.
▪Prigozhin's political credo: "I love Russia, I don't care about Shoigu, we will continue to fight."
▪There are two scenarios - an optimistic one, which Prigogine does not believe in, and a not very optimistic one. The first option is that Europe and the United States will get tired, China will put everyone at the negotiating table, where Russia will say to the taken territories “This is all ours” and they will listen to it.
The pessimistic scenario is that the Ukrainians are given missiles, they have trained troops and command staff, equipment, they will continue fighting and counterattack (possibly successfully), and then they will try to restore the borders until 2014. For Russia, this scenario will not be good, so you need to prepare for a difficult war.
▪We need to stop building glass towers and fattening ourselves, we need to work only for the war, transferring all production to military needs and declaring additional waves of mobilization. First you need to stabilize the front, and only then deal with civilian things.