Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing the greatest threat to his authority in two decades after Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner paramilitary group and Putin’s former ally, launched an apparent insurrection
Wagner has claimed control of several military facilities and threatened that their troops would march for Moscow, if Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Russia’s top general Valery Gerasimov do not meet with Prigozhin.
The president described events in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don – where Wagner claim to have taken control of a key military facility – as an insurrection. The Wagner chief claimed his forces seized the Russian Southern Military Headquarters in the city of Rostov-on-Don “without firing a single shot,” suggesting that “the country supports us.”
The escalation came after Prigozhin accused Russian forces of striking a Wagner military camp and killing “a huge amount” of his fighters – a claim Russia’s Ministry of Defense has denied and called an “informational provocation.” “When we were told that we were at war with Ukraine, we went and fought. But it turned out that ammunition, weapons, all the money that was allocated is also being stolen, and the bureaucrats are sitting [idly], saving it for themselves, just for the occasion that happened today, when someone [is] marching to Moscow,” Prigozhin said in Saturday Telegram messages.
In a statement shared by the chairman of the Russian Historical Society on Telegram, Naryshkin stated that the rebellion was an unforgivable crime “that cannot be justified by any prior achievements.”
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