Yevgeny Prigozhin, businessman and head of the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC), said the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) launched a strike from the HIMARS MLRS on a facility that held Ukrainian prisoners of war destined for trades. Prigozhin’s words are quoted by his press service.
Prigozhin recalled that at the end of April, the PMC announced its refusal to take soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into captivity. This decision was taken after the appearance on the web of an audio recording in which, allegedly, the Ukrainian army makes the decision to shoot a wounded soldier from the PMC Wagner. According to Prigozhin, after that the private military company had a number of prisoners of war, which were to be exchanged in the future.
“HIMARS has just arrived at this facility. How many prisoners died – we will understand. (…) Destroy themselves,” he said.
Prigozhin said an investigation team was called to the strike site.
In April, Yevgeny Prigozhin ordered the Wagner PMC fighters not to take prisoners, but to destroy the army of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the battlefield.
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