The head of the Wagner Group would offer Kiev to reveal Russian positions in Ukraine, according to “The Washington Post”.

Head of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhinwould offer to the Ukrainian authorities discover the position of Russian troops who are taking part in the invasion of the country, according to leaked United States intelligence documents obtained by an American newspaper The Washington Post.

Prigozhin, close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been at the center of a public dispute with the government over the offensive around the town of Bakhmut and even threatened to withdraw his mercenaries if the authorities did not provide him with enough ammunition. operations.

The documents, leaked through Discord, state that Prigozhin would make an offer at the end of January, amid heavy losses in the ranks of Wagner’s group. So he contacted Ukrainian military intelligence to say that if Kiev withdrew its forces from Bakhmut, it would give Kiev information about the location of Russian troops, without further details.

Contacted by Ukrainian official sources The Washington Post They pointed out that the head of the Wagner group had spoken with the country’s military intelligence services on several occasions, and even one of those sources emphasized that Prigozhin had repeatedly made an offer for Bakhmut, although Kiev rejected it because they did not trust him.

In this regard, American sources admitted that Washington has similar doubts about Prigozhin’s intentions, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in a recent interview with this American media, refused to confirm whether there were contacts with the head of the Wagner Group, a key player in the invasion of the country, launched in February 2022 by order of Putin.

According to the American newspaper, another of the documents suggests that Prigozhin has maintained contacts with the Ukrainian intelligence service what are they going outside of phone calls and even include face-to-face meetings with Ukrainian officials in the country in Africa. Wagner’s group deployed mercenaries in various countries on the continent.

So, the documents suggest that Prigozhin would he conveyed Russia’s problems with the supply of ammunition to the Ukrainian intelligence services and recommended that Kiev launch an offensive on the border with the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014.

Separately, other leaked documents reveal private conversations between Russian Defense Ministry officials about how to respond to Prigozhin’s criticism of the situation at the front and his calls for more resources, while acknowledging that these were not complaints. unfounded, in the context of apparent power, the conflict between him and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

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Prigozhin’s press service published an audio message from the head of the Wagner group in which he explains about this information. “Of course I can confirm this information. We have nothing to hide from foreign special services. Budanov and I are still in Africa»he quipped, although he did not comment on the possible offer to reveal Russian positions in eastern Ukraine.

for his part, The Kremlin labeled this information as “fake news”. stemmed from an alleged leak suggesting that the head of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, would offer to Ukrainian authorities to reveal the location of Russian troops participating in the invasion of the country.

“It looks like another fake news. Unfortunately, even respected publications have not rejected them in recent years,” Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov said at a press conference, according to Russian news agency TASS.