Mercenary Prigozhin warns Russia might face revolution except elite will get severe about conflict

(This story incorporates language that readers might discover offensive in paragraph 5)

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founding father of the Wagner mercenary group, warned that Russia might face a revolution just like these of 1917 and lose the conflict in Ukraine except the elite obtained severe about preventing the conflict.

Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine has triggered one of many deadliest European conflicts since World Struggle Two and the most important confrontation between Moscow and the West because the 1962 Cuban Missile Disaster.

Ukraine is making ready a counter-offensive aimed toward pushing Russian troops again to the borders of earlier than 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea, Prigozhin mentioned. Ukraine would attempt to encircle Bakhmut and assault Crimea, he added.

“Most certainly of all, this state of affairs won’t be good for Russia so we have to put together for an arduous conflict,” he mentioned in an interview posted on his Telegram channel.

“We’re in such a situation that we might fucking lose Russia – that’s the fundamental drawback … We have to impose martial regulation.”

Prigozhin mentioned his political outlook was dominated by love for the motherland and serving Putin. He mentioned the nickname of “Putin’s chef” was silly as he could not cook dinner, quipping that “Putin’s butcher” is likely to be a extra apt nickname.

Russia’s elite, he mentioned, protected their very own kids from preventing the conflict whereas the youngsters of peculiar Russians perished on the entrance, a state of affairs he mentioned that would set off turmoil in Russia.

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If peculiar Russians continued getting their kids again in zinc coffins whereas the youngsters of the elite sunned themselves overseas, he mentioned, Russia would face turmoil alongside the traces of the 1917 revolutions which ushered in a civil conflict.

(Reporting by Man Faulconbridge; Enhancing by Andrew Heavens)

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