sident Vladimir Putin has vowed to punish Wagner mercenary boss,Yevgeny Prigozhin for the advance on moscow. He said that Russia is facing state treason in a televised address on Saturday. He said Authorities will take decisive action to stabilize the situation in Rostov a southern Russian city, which Wagner says it’s taken control of.
Footage shot by Reuters showed heavily armed Wagner troops and military vehicles posted in the city streets. A video posted by a Pro Wagner Telegram channel showed Prigozhin, seemingly relaxed conversing with two generals at the headquarters of Russia’s huge southern military district. He could be seen demanding to see Army Chief Sergei Shoigu in Rostov, or else he would implicate the city and head for Moscow.
That came soon after Prigozhin announced a march for Justice with 25,000 fighters all the way to Moscow to oust the military leadership as punishment according to Prigozhin, for an alleged Russian airstrike that killed a huge number of his mercenary, he made the announcement in a series of audio clips released Friday, in which the sound of his voice sometimes varied and could not be independently verified.
Prigozhin said his actions were not a military coup, but he vowed to punish those who destroyed the lives of many tens of thousands of Russian soldiers, and he was ready to go all the way against the top brass and destroy anyone in their way. Raising stakes in what seems to be the biggest domestic crisis in Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine Last year.
Russian State run Rossiya-24 channel interrupted its programming on Friday to relay a statement from the defense ministry saying, Prigozhin’s allegations were untrue and a provocation
Russia’s Federal Security Bureau urged Wagner fighters quote ‘’not to make irreparable mistakes, not to carry out the criminal and traitorous orders of Prigozhin and to take measures to detain him’’. Earlier on Friday, Prigozhin released a video that the Ukraine war was based on lies.
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