'Let's meet in the skies,' Yevgeny Prigozhin told Zelenksy in a video purportedly recorded in the cockpit of a bomber jet. 'If you win, you take [Bakhmut].'
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, left, is shown in Lviv, Ukraine, on January 11, 2023, while Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, right, is pictured in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on June 17, 2016. Prigozhin on Monday challenged Zelensky to a fighter jet duel for control of Bakhmut.The Institute for the Study of War , a U.S.
The ISW report said Russian nationalist military bloggers had recently concluded that"Prigozhin's flashy tactics may indicate that the non-Wagner-affiliated nationalist information space may be awakening to Prigozhin's efforts to use the war in Ukraine for personal benefit.", may be dropping in popularity despite having previously gained signifiant political influence through"his skill in trolling.
Earlier on Monday, members of Ukraine's parliament passed a resolution to officially declare that the Wagner Group is an international"criminal organization." The group, which wasby Prigozhin in 2014, has also conducted mercenary operations to support Russian interests in countries that include Syria, Libya, Sudan, the Central African Republic and Mali.
"The purpose of adopting the resolution is to consolidate the efforts of Ukraine and the international community for the just restoration of peace, ensuring the international legal order in the world and in Ukraine, and the inevitable punishment of all persons guilty of violating international humanitarian law," the Ukrainian
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