Yevgeny Prigozhin
Russian billionaire and businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin.
  • The boss of the Wagner Group said Russian troops fled from the front lines of the war in Ukraine.
  • Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin made the claims in a scathing video posted on Tuesday.
  • "They all fled and opened up a front almost two kilometers wide and 500 meters deep," he said.

The boss of the notorious Russian paramilitary Wagner Group said that some of the Kremlin's forces "abandoned their positions" and ran away from the frontlines of Moscow's war with Ukraine

In a video published to Telegram on Tuesday, Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin mocked the Russian troops as he detailed how they ran from their positions near the war-torn Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.