WAGNER BOSS SLAMS RUSSIAN ELITE FOLLOWING DRONE ATTACK ON MOSCOW

Wed 31 May 2023:

Following the drone strike on Moscow that injured two people, damaged property, angered the head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group and has once again criticized the Russian military and political elite.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose mercenary forces have played a significant part in Ukraine’s war, blamed the drone assault on out-of-touch politicians living in Moscow’s posh neighborhood of Rublyovka in an expletive-drenched statement shared on Telegram by his press service on Tuesday.

“You, the Defence Ministry, have done nothing to launch an offensive,” Prigozhin said.

“How dare you allow the drones to reach Moscow?”

“And what do ordinary people do when drones with explosives crash into their windows?”

Focusing his ire on powerful residents of the upmarket Rublyovka area in Moscow’s western suburbs, Prigozhin spoke of the “scum” and “swine” who sat quietly while Moscow was attacked.

In a post on Telegram after the attack on Tuesday, Alexander Khinshtein, a prominent member of Russia’s parliament from the ruling United Russia bloc, said three of the eight drones had been downed over three Rublyovka villages, one of which is located just 10 minutes drive from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence at Novo-Ogaryovo.

Rublyovka, a patchwork of elite gated communities in the forests west of Moscow, which once boasted some of the world’s highest real-estate prices, is home to much of Russia’s political, business and cultural elite. Former President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin have been reported to own homes in Rublyovka, alongside many of Russia’s richest business figures.

Kadyrov call for martial law

Following the drone attacks, Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman leader of the Russian province of Chechnya, urged the Kremlin to declare martial law nationwide and use all its resources in Ukraine “to sweep away that terrorist gang”.

Kadyrov also warned European countries over supplying Ukraine with weapons, stating that “if they continue to supply Ukraine with weapons, they will not have the weapons needed to defend themselves when Russia ‘knocks on their doors’”.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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