{"id":576037,"date":"2023-05-26T01:37:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T22:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-the-wagner-boss-is-saying-russia-could-lose-war\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T01:37:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T22:37:07","slug":"why-the-wagner-boss-is-saying-russia-could-lose-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-the-wagner-boss-is-saying-russia-could-lose-war\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why the Wagner boss is saying Russia could lose war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/prigozhinyevgeny_040823_AP.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin once again amplified his public rift with Russian leadership this week, saying the war in Ukraine had backfired and the Kremlin risked facing a revolution.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview that lasted more than an hour with a prominent pro-Kremlin blogger,\u00a0Prigozhin offered an astounding \u2014and perhaps a somewhat honest \u2014 assessment of the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Prigozhin estimated heavy losses for his private military company in taking the city of Bakhmut this month, considered more of a symbolic than strategic victory. He also\u00a0said Russia\u2019s goal to demilitarize Ukraine had completely backfired and suggested Russia should \u201cchange the top leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the beginning of the special military operation, let\u2019s say they had 500 tanks. Now they have 5,000 tanks,\u201d he said. \u201cIt turned out to be the opposite. We militarized it to the nth degree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The private military head also praised the Ukrainian army as one of the \u201cstrongest\u201d in the world and suggested Kyiv could retake territory across eastern Ukraine and possibly even the Crimean Peninsula in the upcoming counteroffensive. He\u00a0argued the invasion, first ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin about 15 months ago to \u201cdenazify\u201d Ukraine, has so far failed to produce meaningful results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing is working out for us,\u201d Prigozhin said. \u201cThe denazification of Ukraine we were talking about has turned Ukraine into a nation that is known everywhere all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prigozhin has repeatedly sounded off against the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>s leading the war in recent months and has paid no <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arent political price for his frequent criticisms.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the pro-Russian blogger, Konstantin Dolgov, was fired the day after the interview with Prigozhin,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/russia-journalist-fired-prigozhin-interview\/32427742.html\">according to Radio Free Europe.<\/a><\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Thomas Graham, a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said Prigozhin\u2019s wider goal is not to make Russia look bad but to criticize the conduct of the war through what the Wagner chief believes is a \u201cclearer description of what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe believes that a greater effort ought to be put into prosecuting this war,\u201d Graham said. \u201cIf anything, he would like to be more aggressive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graham compared Prigozhin to Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who has also deployed fighters in Ukraine and has been sometimes critical of how the war has been carried out.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Both Kadyrov and Prigozhin are unlikely to face much consequences for public comments given their positions overseeing military units \u2014 so long as they contain their criticisms and don\u2019t attack Putin or the war itself, according to analysts.<\/p>\n<p>Wagner Group, which has fought for Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine since October, paid a heavy price for taking the city and delivering Russia its first significant victory since the summer.<\/p>\n<p>In the monthslong battle, Prigozhin says he lost around 20,000 troops, about half of whom were his employees and half were convicts recruited from prisons. Many of the prisoner soldiers were thrown at Ukrainian lines to make incremental advances.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Prigozhin became known for fiery rants during the battle for Bakhmut, many of them ripping into Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, the commander overseeing the war in Ukraine, for not providing enough ammunition and for cowardice among conventional Russian troops.<\/p>\n<p>The Wagner chief was the first to announce victory in Bakhmut last weekend, which was followed by a quick statement from Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defense and then Putin himself, who named the mercenary company along with his army for their role in taking the city.<\/p>\n<p>Prigozhin appears to have grown much bolder since taking Bakhmut. In the interview, Prigozhin called his army the toughest in the world, putting himself above the Russian military, which he refers to as the second strongest.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Later in the interview he called out Shoigu by name and other Russian elites, accusing them this time of protecting their children from war and having \u201cfat, carefree lives\u201d while others are suffering.<\/p>\n<p>George Beebe, the director of grand strategy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, said Prigozhin has lofty political ambitions in Russia and is setting himself up as a populist leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think his goal is to portray himself as a contrast and alternative to what he\u2019s portraying as corrupt Russian military leadership,\u201d Beebe said. \u201cThey\u2019re exploiting Russia\u2019s tax dollars for their own benefit and for the benefit of their children.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWagner, on the other hand, we\u2019re real men. We\u2019re out there fighting, we\u2019re dying, we\u2019re the ones that are spending blood for the sake of the motherland,\u201d he continued, assessing Prigozhin\u2019s thinking. \u201cI think that\u2019s what his broader message is about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The remarks from Prigozhin this week came as pro-Ukrainian militia groups marched into Belgorod, a region of Russia bordering Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s military battled the resistance groups, which described themselves as Russian citizens seeking to overthrow the Kremlin, for two days in what became an unsettling incursion into Russian territory.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>On Telegram, Prigozhin posted statements criticizing Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defense for failing to secure the borders.<\/p>\n<p>Prigozhin said in the interview that Russia might face another revolution similar to 1917, when the Bolsheviks overthrew the monarchy and introduced communism, because of corruption during a time of war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing this dichotomy can lead to is a revolution,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the beginning, the soldiers will rise up and after that, their relatives will.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. 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