Putin confidant Yevgeny Prigozhin responds to assassination video

A Russian oligarch and close confidant of President Vladimir Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, responded to an assassination video of a former mercenary who changed sides in September to support Ukraine.

What happened to an unpublished video of Yevgenny Nuzhin, a former Wagner mercenary, who was executed by a sledgehammer blow to the head after admitting to changing sides in September to fight the Russians is doing rounds on the internet.

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The video appeared first on the Grey Zone Telegram channel, one of several handles that Russian media said was linked to the Wagner group.

According to a statement by his spokesperson, Prigozhin, who founded the private military group Wagner, said the video should be called A dog receives a dog's death. Prigozhin said that Nuzhin betrayed his people, betrayed his comrades, and was consciously betrayed. The U.S. and the European Union have sanctioned Prigozhin for his role in Wagner.

He said there are not only traitors who throw away their automatic guns and go over to the enemy.

Some traitors are holed up in offices and don't think about their own people. Some of them use their own business jets to fly to countries that seem neutral to us so far. They fly away so as not to participate in today s problems. They are also traitors, he added.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of committing war crimes and said investigators have already documented more than 400 Russian war crimes.

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