There has been a deepening rift in recent months between Yevgeny Prigozhin and Russia's military leadership.
In the video released by Prigozhin's press service, the man introduces himself as Lieutenant Colonel Roman Venevitin, commander of the 72nd motorized rifle brigade.
He said that together with between 10 to 12 of his subordinates, he disarmed a group of Wagner Group fighters and"opened fire on a Wagner PMC vehicle [while] intoxicated from alcohol." He said he did this because of"bad blood." When pressed on whether this type of resentment has a place in the war, Venevitin, who has a visbly damaged nosebridge in the video, said"no."The Insider, an independent Russian news outlet, reported that it was able to confirm the identity of the person in the video as Venevitin Roman Gennadievich, born in 1978—a Russian serviceman who graduated from a military academy.
"It seems that the feud between PMC Wagner and Russian regular army got on the next level," tweeted Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine's minister of internal affairs, of the video.
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