Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin admitted Monday to creating the private military company Wagner Group.
In a comment published by the press service of his company Concord Management and Consulting on Russia’s VK social network, Prigozhin disclosed the history of Wagner.
According to him, in 2014, he was trying to organize resistance to the Ukrainian military in Crimea and had to deal with a lot of cheaters who “were hiring volunteers and then sent them naked and barefoot to certain death.”
Prigozhin said that seeing this mess, he decided to take the organization into his own hands and found specialists who helped him put in orders for weapons and military equipment.
“From that moment, on May 1, 2014, a group of patriots appeared which later was named PMC Wagner,” he said.
Prigozhin slammed journalists and other curious people for “trying to find negatives” in Wagner’s activities and that many tried to attribute to the group crimes it did not commit.
