Yevgeny Prigozhin hit out at authorities for not preventing Tuesday’s drones strikes on Russia’s capital.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner Group, sharply criticized Russian military officials following Tuesday’s drone attack on Moscow.
The mercenary organization’s founder took to Telegram following the assault, where he offered a sharp rebuke of senior military officials living in Rublyovka—an elite suburb of Moscow—asking why they were “allowing these drones to fly to Moscow?”
According to Russian authorities, Moscow was hit with drone strikes at around 4 a.m. local time. Local Telegram channels reported that around 30 drones participated in the attacks, 10 of which were destroyed. While some damage to residential buildings was reported, no casualties have been so far. Since it’s been more than a year since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin-backed news agency Tass wrote that Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed Kyiv for the attack, but Mikhailo Podolyak—a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky—denied his country’s involvement.
