Wagner chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has said that his group spearheading a civil war in Russia has not killed a single soldier.
He boasted that, yet, it has captured the army Headquarters in Rostov-on-Don.
He said his men had not fired a single shot.
Speaking via a Telegram audio on Saturday, he noted:
“Why does the country support us? Because we went on a march of justice,” Prigozhin said in his latest audio message on the Telegram social media platform.
“We got to Rostov. Without a single shot we captured the building of the (army) HQ,” he said.
He said the mercenaries “had not touched a single soldier, we did not kill a single person on our way” and claimed his men had been hit by strikes from “artillery and after that from helicopters.”
He also claimed to have the support of locals in Rostov.
AFP reports that Prigozhin said that his fighters had removed mines from outside the building Wagner occupied in Rostov.
Earlier, the outspoken chief hit back at President Vladimir Putin, who called Prigozhin a traitor in an address to Russians.
“On treason of the motherland: the
president is deeply wrong. We are patriots of our motherland,” he said.
