A Russian millionaire and close supporter of Vladimir Putin accused by the US, EU, and others of backing the private military organisation Wagner Group has stated that Russia will overcome “a dying-out western civilization.”
The Guardian contacted Yevgeny Prigozhin to inquire about his reaction to information linking Wagner fighters to atrocities in Mali. In response, he stated that he had “repeatedly stated that the Wagner Group does not exist” and had “nothing to do with it.”
“You are a fading western civilization that regards Russians, Malians, Central Africans, Cubans, Nicaraguans, and many other peoples and countries as third-world slime,” the merchant continued. “Keep in mind that this is not true…. You are a pitiful endangered species of perverts, and there are billions of us. And triumph shall be ours!”
Prigozhin stated that he was “closely following the events taking place in Mali,” where “the collective west, namely the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and other countries attempting to pursue an enslavement policy in Africa, have been planting and organising terrorist groups in Mali for years.”
He said that this was done “in order to put the inhabitants of this nation in terror, steal its natural resources, and write off the money allotted for so-called peacekeeping operations.”
In contrast to Prigozhin, Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, recognised Wagner’s presence in Mali and Libya on Sunday. Wagner was present in the two African nations “on a business basis,” according to Lavrov, but he restated Moscow’s official view that Wagner “had nothing to do with the Russian state.”
According to Western authorities, the Kremlin is using Wagner to push Russian economic and political objectives in Africa and abroad. The group, which has also been connected to human rights violations in Syria and Ukraine, is believed to have deployed fighters and advisers in more than a dozen countries since its first identification in 2014, when it was supporting pro-Russian rebels in the fighting in eastern Ukraine.
Allegations that the Wagner Group and the Malian army were implicated in killings and other human rights violations were debunked, according to Pirozghin.
“Any terrorist slain by the Malian army, the West attempted to pass off as a civilian… Concerning the [reported] crimes, neither I nor the individuals I know, nor the Malian army, have perpetrated them.”
The businessman reportedly accused the French army of killing citizens “mercilessly” and dumping their bones “not distant from military outposts.”
When Islamists and other terrorists forged a formidable coalition in Mali in 2012, France sent soldiers there. Following a collapse in ties with the country’s ruling junta, Emmanuel Macron announced in February that the troops would be departing.
The French military said last month that Wagner mercenaries buried bodies near a Malian military camp in order to falsely accuse France’s departing soldiers of leaving mass graves. The French army claimed to have deployed a drone to photograph what seemed to be white soldiers sandbagging bodies near the Gossi camp in northern Mali.
After obtaining culinary contracts for state dinners, Prigozhin gained the moniker “Putin’s cook.” He was prosecuted by the US in 2018 for allegedly funding an internet campaign to influence the 2016 US elections. He has also been accused of orchestrating systematic efforts to sway public opinion using bogus social media profiles in Africa, where Facebook has regularly banned accounts thought to be set up by Wagner agents.
“There’s an old adage that goes, ‘Don’t pee against the wind, or you’ll drown in the splash.’ These atrocities are performed in your inflamed brain, which has been afflicted with the sickness known as ‘Nazism.'”
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