https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGjzmFbbag

Aug 22 (Reuters) - Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin posted his first video address since leading a short-lived mutiny in late June, appearing in a social media clip which he suggested was shot in Africa.

In the video, posted on Telegram channels affiliated with the Wagner group on Monday, Prigozhin speaks of making Russia greater on all continents and Africa more free. It is likely to exacerbate Western fears that Wagner could expand its African operations after a coup in Niger that has taken on anti-Western overtones.

Prigozhin is seen standing in a desert area in camouflage with a rifle in his hands. In the distance are armed men and a pickup truck.

Reuters was not able to geolocate or verify the date of the video. Prigozhin's comments and some posts in the pro-Wagner channels suggested it was filmed in Africa.

"The temperature is +50 - everything as we like. The Wagner PMC (private military company) makes Russia even greater on all continents, and Africa - more free," Prigozhin says in the video.

"Justice and happiness - for the African people, we're making life a nightmare for ISIS and al Qaeda and other bandits," he says.

He then says Wagner is recruiting people and the group "will fulfil the tasks that were set". The video is accompanied by a telephone number for those who want to join the group.

Wagner is already present in Niger's neighbour Mali, where its fighters were hired in 2021 by a military junta which has ordered out French troops and U.N. peacekeepers who had been helping the Malian army battle Islamist insurgents for a decade.

U.N. sanctions monitors alleged in a report in August that Malian troops and their Russian partners were using violence against women and other grave human rights abuses to spread terror.

Wagner and Mali have denied this, as well as accusations that they executed at least 500 people in a village last year.

In Niger, where U.S., French, German and Italian troops are stationed as part of international efforts to contain the Islamists, a junta that seized power on July 26 has been using anti-French rhetoric in its broadcasts. Mali's military government has given support to Niger's coup leaders.

Pro-coup demonstrators in Niamey have waved Russian flags, adding to Western countries' fears that Niger could follow Mali's lead and replace their troops with Wagner fighters.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for a return to constitutional order in Niger, while Prigozhin has welcomed the coup.

Prigozhin's video appeared on the eve of a BRICS summit in South Africa where efforts by some members to strengthen and possibly expand the bloc as a counterweight to the West are on the agenda. Putin will take part virtually, while Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is expected in person.

The future of Wagner and Prigozhin has been unclear since he led a short mutiny against the Russian defence establishment in late June and the Kremlin said he and some of his fighters - who have fought in some of the fiercest battles of the Ukraine war - would leave for Belarus.

Since the mutiny, some Wagner fighters have moved to Belarus and started training the army there. In comments published in late July, Prigozhin also said Wagner was ready to further increase its presence in Africa.

As well as Mali, Wagner is active in Central African Republic and Libya. Western nations say it is also present in Sudan, though it denies this. (Reporting by Maxim Rodionov and Estelle Shirbon; Editing by Hugh Lawson and Angus MacSwan)

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Hnnnn. I just hope this is not what I'm thinking

The idiots you call leaders in this continent are just pawns in the hands of the western chess masters. They want to turn Africa to a battle ground and the clowns you all call leaders are playing to the gallery.
Of course, America has to sell its weapons, the weapons can't just be there doing nothing

So Russia has now brought World War Africa, something ipob could not do with sit at home and attacking security men.

The bastard called Ebola has chickened out after all the noise!!! IBB has been proved right once again

Thiefnubuu is just foolling around because he wants the west to pardon him for selling cocaine to their children back in the days

Remember ...the people that are fighting NIGER REPUBLIC are from SW.

Even Though its a known fact that they are supreme COWARDS..

Nigeria should be their first target.

This video will send shivers down the spine of the agbado commander in chief 😀😆😆😆😎




He will be very sorry for himself for the reckless pronouncement he made earlier. Yorubas and cowardice are 5&6.

War start
Wey my stick gun

Foolish Africans don fall for Oyinbo dream. Now they can legitimately wipe you out and own it all. Bomb go de fall for places where war no concern. Always a foolish pawn in Oyinbo games. Shameful. Any African that joins this Putin madness is a fool.

So are the idiot ECOWAS. We will all lose in the end. How many bases do foreign countries have in Niger? Yet they are calling Africans to come and kill themselves. Makes no sense.

2mch:
Foolish Africans don fall for Oyinbo dream. Now they can legitimately wipe you out and own it all. Bomb go de fall for places where war no concern. Always a foolish pawn in Oyinbo games. Shameful. Any African that joins this Putin madness is a fool.

So are the idiot ECOWAS. We will all lose in the end. How many bases do foreign countries have in Niger? Yet they are calling Africans to come and kill themselves. Makes no sense.

Pan-Africunn spotted

"The Wagner Group conducts reconnaissance and search activities. "
This sentence means everything you'd most likely not experience. It means everything else.

Nigerian soldiers, my brothers - please do not go to Niger. It is a proxy war that will turn into a blood bath. The only losers will be Africans.

Go home and farm, stay with your families.

wey those agbado munching idiots

its time to walk the talk, no be to dey make noise for nairaland

RemoveEbola:
The bastard called Ebola has chickened out after all the noise!!! IBB has been proved right once again

IBB is ruuuuuudee

Yeye man...in your backyard you are about to declare no victor no vanquish and you think Africa is your mate? Wait till the temperature increases to 80 you will wash out by force.

This idiot is not going to last should he dare west Africa.

They've sent to Africa to die...very soon you will know the meaning of Janjaweedians.

kettykin:
So Russia has now brought World War Africa, something ipob could not do with sit at home and attacking security men.

face wagner that is daring you, go to niger and die the death

leave IPOB alone

Longinyamapucci:
Yeye man...in your backyard you are about to declare no victor no vanquish and you think Africa is your mate? Wait till the temperature increases to 80 you will wash out by force.

This idiot is not going to last should he dare west Africa.

They've sent to Africa to die...very soon you will know the meaning of Janjaweedians.

Wagner that held Ukraine to a standstill. They are the commandos of the Ukrainian war, without them Russia may have lost. Now Russia is winning.

maticar:

face wagner that is daring you, go to niger and die the death

leave IPOB alone

..stop that expensive joke, can Nigeria face Wagner? This will be the biggest joke of the century, you think Wagner is Biafra military, Wagner within 25 hours will flatten all airports, seaports, power stations, dams, oil rigs, oil platforms, banks , cbn , fuel stations, telecommunications, television installations government offices in the 36 states and FCT and send Nigeria back to the stone age. What can Nigeria really do besides shooting unarmed civilians and starvation of women and children.

Nigeria is a huge comedy of jokes. Nobody takes the country seriously in the committee of nations, they were not invited to brics meeting and they are not a factor in the new power games playing out in Africa. I think Russia has their game plans for Nigeria. Nigeria is a big disappointment.

Another terrorist group that will terrorize Africa in the next few years.

kettykin:
..stop that expensive joke, can Nigeria face Wagner? This will be the biggest joke of the century, you think Wagner is Biafra military, Wagner within 25 hours will flatten all airports, seaports, power stations, dams, oil rigs, oil platforms, banks , cbn , fuel stations, telecommunications, television installations government offices in the 36 states and FCT and send Nigeria back to the stone age. What can Nigeria really do besides shooting unarmed civilians and starvation of women and children.

Nigeria is a huge comedy of jokes. Nobody takes the country seriously in the committee of nations, they were not invited to brics meeting and they are not a factor in the new power games playing out in Africa. I think Russia has their game plans for Nigeria. Nigeria is a big disappointment.

we don't even have air defense system for Abuja,not to talk of the whole Nigeria.
Nigeria is messed up.
Very useless country.
Every missile directed against Nigeria will land in our airspace.
Check out the Israeli iron dome,if 5000 missiles are targeted at Israel,maybe only one will land in Israel.

Stupid Africans with Ecowas bad democracy bad have seen nothing yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clCE_MM7BLc

Wagner Group Deploys Additional Forces To Niger and Mali

I pray this war is averted .. because when it starts , the north will not be safe anymore

Africa, especially the western part no get infrastructures to combat all these nonsense.

They should all get the Bleep out

Douglad:
Africa, especially the western part no get infrastructures to combat all these nonsense.

They should all get the Bleep out

Hmm

Losers propagandists continue

IhateYouMan:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1693702194694902189

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGjzmFbbag

Wagner Chief In Niger Prigozhin Releases Video Message

Russian mercenary leader and chief of Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin published his first recruitment video for his militia in Africa since
organizing a short-lived mutiny against Russia. In the video, shot in Africa, the mercenary leader says the Wagner Group is conducting reconnaissance and search activities, and “making Russia even greater on all continents, and Africa even more free.”
This comes at a time when tensions are running high in West Africa over the coup in Niger.