Russia denies attacking Wagner Group training camps

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June 23 () –

The Russian Ministry of Defense has assured this Friday that the information released about an alleged Russian attack on the training camps of the Wagner Group is not true, despite the fact that a Telegram channel of the paramilitary organization had previously denounced it.

“All the messages and videos disseminated on social networks on behalf of Yevgeni Prigozhin (leader of the organization) about the alleged attack by the Russian Ministry of Defense on the Wagner camps do not correspond to reality and are an informative provocation,” reported the Russian military portfolio.

The Ministry has reported in a statement that the Russian Armed Forces “continue to carry out combat missions on the line of contact with the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of ​​the special military operation,” Moscow’s euphemism for war on territory. ukrainian.

Previously, a Telegram channel of the mercenary organization has denounced that “a missile attack against Wagner training camps” had been launched and that it had left “many victims.” “The coup has been delivered (…) by soldiers from the Russian Ministry of Defense,” the message highlights.

The leadership of the Wagner Group, which is fighting on the Russian side in the war in Ukraine, has been critical of the Russian military authorities and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, whom, among other things, they criticized for the lack of supplies and ammunition during the battle for Bakhmut.

Prigozhin has assured this same Friday that the Russian oligarchy and the Ministry of Defense pressured President Vladimir Putin to attack Ukraine and that his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodimir Zelenski, was never the threat they sold.