The head of the Wagner mercenary group on Saturday said he had crossed into Russia and seized control of a key military headquarters. theSun theSundaily conflict politics Wagner Russia
This video grab taken from handout footage posted on June 24, 2023 on the Telegram account of the press service of Concord -- a company linked to the chief of Russian mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin -- shows Yevgeny Prigozhin speaking inside the headquarters of the Russian southern military district in the city of Rostov-on-Don.
“A huge amount of territory is lost. Soldiers have been killed three, four times more than it says in documents shown to the top .” The FSB security service accused Prigozhin of attempting to launch a “civil conflict” and urged Wagner fighters to detain him. “We will destroy everything that stands in our way,“ Prigozhin said, claiming that his forces had shot down a Russian military helicopter.
In a statement, the FSB said: “Prigozhin’s statements and actions are in fact a call to start an armed civil conflict on the territory of the Russian Federation and a stab in the back to Russian servicemen fighting pro-fascist Ukrainian forces.” “I urge you to stop,“ Sergei Surovikin, commander of Russia’s aerospace forces, said in a highly unusual video address.
However, it said Wagner’s attempts to take control of Rostov-on-Don, a key logistical base for Russia’s offensive in Ukraine, “would have significant impacts on Russia’s war effort in Ukraine”.
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