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Wagner boss blasts Russia’s elite following Moscow drone attack

An advertising board, which promotes service in the Russian army and invites volunteers to sign a contract with the defence ministry, is on display near a damaged multi-storey apartment block (R) following a reported drone attack in Moscow. A slogan on the board reads: "Our profession is to defend fatherland" [Maxim Shemetov/Reuters]

The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary force has again criticised the Russian military and political elite following the drone attack on Moscow that injured two people, damaged property and left some furious the Kremlin had not better protected the capital city.

In an expletive-drenched statement posted on Telegram by his press service on Tuesday, Yevgeny Prigozhin – whose mercenary fighters have played a key role in the war in Ukraine – blamed the drone attack on out-of-touch officials living in Moscow’s affluent suburb of Rublyovka.

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