Russian Propagandists Begin To ‘Flush’ Prigozhin

• 1.07.2023, 14:11

A special story was released on the Russian First Channel.

On the Russian Channel One, a week after the start of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rebellion, they decided to call the high efficiency of Wagner PMC fighters during the invasion of Ukraine a “myth”.

The channels’ news piece says that the Russian Armed Forces took Mariupol in 71 days, and the “Wagnerites” took Bakhmut in 224 days.

On the air of Channel One, the effectiveness of the PMC Wagner was questioned and Bakhmut was called “not the most important city from the point of view of the front”.

The first city is called “one of the most important centers of Ukrainian metallurgy”, from which “for eight years they purposefully made a powerful fortified area with the considered impregnable Azovstal and the extremely motivated Azov battalion”. It is noted that the population of the city was 425 thousand people.

The plot lists the units of the Russian army that participated in the battle for Mariupol, among which there is no Wagner PMC. The presenter also notes that the city was captured in 71 days.

Meanwhile, it took the “Wagnerites” 224 days to capture “Makhmut, not the most important from the point of view of the entire front,” with a population of 72 thousand people.

As the Charter97.org website reported earlier, the Wagnerites’ boss Yevgeny Prigozhin announced the start of a military coup. On June 24, Wagner troops took Rostov-on-Don and marched through the Rostov, Voronezh and Lipetsk regions of the Russian Federation. Wagner columns with armored vehicles entered the Moscow region and approached a distance of 200 km to Moscow, after which Prigozhin announced his army was turning back.