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Wagner financier admits Russia interfered, will continue to interfere in US democratic process [1]
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Date: 2022-11-07
The private military corporation Wagner recruits criminals and convicts at home and abroad.
“Gentlemen, we interfered, we are interfering and we will interfere,” Prigozhin, who has previously been accused of influencing the outcome of elections across continents, said in a statement posted by his catering company, Concord.
Prigozhin was responding to a request to comment on a recent Bloomberg report saying Russia was interfering in Tuesday’s US midterm elections. The vote is crucial for the legislative agenda in the rest of US president Joe Biden’s term – and could pave the way for a White House comeback by Donald Trump.
The US social media analysis firm Graphika last week said that suspected Russian operatives have used far-right media platforms to criticise Democratic candidates in the lead-up to the midterm elections in a number of US states, including Georgia, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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x According to The Insider, over 500 recruited convicts died in the past two months with overall Wagner losses of 800-1,000 mercenaries indicating convicts comprise a large proportion of Wagner’s forces in Ukraine. — Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) November 6, 2022
LONDON (Reuters) -Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Monday he had interfered in U.S. elections and would continue doing so in future, the first such admission from a figure implicated by Washington in efforts to influence American politics.
In comments posted by the press service of his Concord catering firm on Russia's Facebook equivalent VKontakte, Prigozhin said: "We have interfered (in U.S. elections), we are interfering and we will continue to interfere. Carefully, accurately, surgically and in our own way, as we know how to do."
The remark by the close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin was posted on the eve of the U.S. midterm elections in response to a request for comment from a Russian news site.
"During our pinpoint operations, we will remove both kidneys and the liver at once," Prigozhin said. He did not elaborate on the cryptic comment.
Prigozhin, who is often referred to as "Putin's chef" because his catering company operates Kremlin contracts, has been formally accused of sponsoring Russia-based "troll farms" that seek to influence U.S. politics.
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x Prigozhin is trolling Republicans and Trump supporters and Fox and Kash Patel and John Durham-types who continue to parrot Trump's claims about a "Russia hoax." Prighozin is actually under indictment, as Trump Jr should be.
https://t.co/xsAEEjoEep — Eric Lisann (@EricLisann) November 7, 2022
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