- The head of the Wagner Group singled out the daughter and son-in-law of Russia's defense minister.
- Yevgeny Prigozhin was criticizing Russia's elite for sheltering their kids from the war in Ukraine.
The head of the pro-Kremlin Wagner mercenary group escalated his feud with Russia's military on Tuesday, criticizing the defense minister's daughter as a child of the stereotypical elite.
In an interview with Russian political strategist Konstantin Dolgov, Yevgeny Prigozhin called out Russia's elite for not sending their children to fight in Ukraine, $4.
"The children of the elite smear themselves with creams and show off on the internet, while ordinary people's children come home in zinc [coffins], torn to pieces," he said, according to The Times' translation.
Prigozhin directly called out the daughter and the son-in-law of Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu, according to reports.
The couple, Ksenia Shoigu and Alexey Stolyarov, recently shared photos of a holiday in Dubai where they stayed in a luxury hotel, $4.
Prigozhin described the pair as the stereotypical children of Russia's elite, who have vastly different experiences to those fighting in Ukraine, $4
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Prigozhin has previously targeted Stolyarov, $4 in February to have his men bring him to train to fight in Ukraine.
Prigozhin's latest attack comes after months of escalating public feuds between the paramilitary boss and top Russian military officials, including Shoigu.
These have included Prigozhin accusing Russia of $4 to his group in an "attempt to destroy" it, and threatening to $4 from the major battle of Bakhmut.
During Tuesday's interview, Prigozhin said that the Russian elite needed to stop sheltering its children from the fighting in Ukraine, adding that "fat, carefree" lives could spark a "revolution" in Russia, causing working-class citizens to storm the elite's villas with pitchforks.
Notable pro-war figures in Russia have been criticized for not sending their children to fight.
Vladimir Solovyov, a pro-Kremlin propagandist and TV figure who is popular with Russian President Vladimir Putin, was $4 in London at the same time that Solovyov was urging young Russians to fight in Ukraine.
Solovyov pushed back, saying his son was in Moscow and was "living a difficult life of an average young person" and was "not trying to dodge anything."
During the same interview on Tuesday, Prigozhin $4, with Ukraine now having one of the strongest armies in the world.