Wagner head dismisses US paper report that he offered to betray Russian troop positions

FILE PHOTO: Founder of Wagner private mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin leaves a cemetery before the funeral of a Russian military blogger who was killed in a bomb attack in a St Petersburg cafe, in Moscow, Russia, April 8, 2023. REUTERS/Yulia Morozova/

(Reuters) - Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of Russia's Wagner private militia, on Monday dismissed a report in the Washington Post, sourced to a U.S. intelligence leak, that he had offered to reveal the position of Russian troops to the Ukrainian government.

Wagner's soldiers have been at the forefront of a bloody Russian offensive to take the city of Bakhmut.