Prighozin's account of why the war started

"Ukraine has not bombed Donetsk for 8 years, but only the positions of the Russians. The Armed Forces of Ukraine were not going to attack Russia with NATO blocs, the Russian Ministry of Defence is deceiving the public and the president".

"February 24th, there it was nothing like how the ministry of defence tries to deceive the public and tries to deceive the President. In country of Ukraine, it was insane aggression, and they gathered together with the whole NATO block to attack us? That's why the Special Operation was so called on February 24th. It was started for completely different reasons".