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Remember the 'Russia Hoax' ?

Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin has admitted to interfering in US elections on the eve of a midterm vote in which Republicans will seek to take control of Congress and state-wide offices across the country.

“Gentlemen, we interfered, we are interfering and we will interfere, carefully, precisely, surgically and the way we do it, the way we can."

Prigozhin was responding to a request to comment on a recent Bloomberg report saying Russia was interfering in Tuesday’s US midterm elections.

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.

Prigozhin, together with a dozen other Russian nationals and three Russian companies was indicted in 2018 as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential elections.

Prigozhin was charged with inciting discord and dividing American public opinion ahead of the 2016 US presidential election, accusations Prigozhin, as well as the Kremlin, has previously vehemently denied.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/07/putin-ally-yevgeny-prigozhin-admits-interfering-in-us-elections
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smiler2012 · 56-60
{@rodionromanovitch] 🤔 you mean these upcoming midterm elections why come out with this now . is this a wind up by the russians they have interfered just too make mischief
RodionRomanovitch · 56-60, M
@smiler2012 Here's what I told the other guy ;

The guy is the founder of the Wagner Group , now spearheading the Russian campaign in Ukraine. For years Putin had denied that Wagner had anything to do with the Russian State. Yesterday they opened a shiny new building in the heart of St.Petersburg.

Prigozhin had been highly critical of the Ukraine campaign and has criticised the military command. Now his forces are having the most success against the Ukranian counter offensive and he is being hailed as a saviour.

Some have interpreted his remarks today as a further burnishing of his credentials and a sign of his growing political influence within the Kremlin.