“Don’t underestimate him, Zelensky is a strong and confident leader,” the founder of the Wagner Group, whose operatives are fighting on the side of Russian troops in Ukraine, praised President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Despite constant Russian campaigns of derision against Zelensky, Russian president ally Yevgeny Prigozhin, known by the nickname “Putin’s Chef”, considered the Ukrainian president a “strong and confident leader.”
Zelensky is a strong and kind person!
“Although he is currently the head of an anti-Russian state, Zelensky is a strong, self-confident, practical and kind person,” Yevgeny, who is close to the Kremlin, said in a statement released Tuesday by his office and posted on the social networking site VKontakte.
He also added in the second post, “Don’t underestimate him!”
The statement was the first exception to a series of descriptions often given by Moscow, punching a man in the forehead, describing him as an extremist Nazi, a clown and a drug addict, according to data published by The Telegraph. the newspaper reported.
Prigozhin, 61, formerly known for hosting dinner parties for the Russian president, admitted months ago that he founded the Wagner Group to fight in the Donbass, in eastern Ukraine.
Last September (2022), he appeared in a video clip talking to a number of prisoners in Russia, trying to motivate them to participate in Russian-Ukrainian fighting in exchange for their release and charges being dropped if they survived. and stayed for six months in Ukraine.
However, in the recent period, he, along with the second ally of the Kremlin, the leader of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, whose forces are also involved in the battles, criticized the Russian forces, undermining them at the fronts and ongoing hostilities. launched on the territory of Ukraine since February 24 last year.
