2023-06-26 20:26:49
“Happy civilians” to come to meet Wagner’s militiamen and the striking proof of “serious security problems” in Russia. This is the reading that Evgueni Prigojine delivers, two days after his abortive rebellion. Without saying where he went into exile, Wagner’s boss came out of his silence on Monday in an eleven-minute message in which he said his men traveled 780 kilometers on the road to Moscow, encountering little resistance.
He repeats that if his troops stopped “barely 200 km from Moscow”, it was above all because he did not want to “shed Russian blood” and “not overthrow the power in the country”. And he therefore insists particularly on the support that this march on the capital has been able to meet from Russian civilians. ” [Ils] came to meet us with Russian flags and Wagner emblems, they were happy when we arrived and passed by them,” he says.
It was “a march for justice”…
Evgueni Prigojine does not change course. He reiterates his criticisms of the Russian army general staff. “The purpose of the march was not to allow the destruction of the Wagner Group and to hold accountable those who, through their unprofessional actions, committed a considerable number of errors during the special military operation” in Ukraine, he insists, believing that Wagner has “a high level of organization which should be that of the Russian army”. His revolt, which he describes as a “march for justice”, was therefore a “demonstration” of the way in which the offensive in Ukraine should have been carried out, according to him.
In his long-awaited speech, the former putschist also assures that his organization shot down Russian air force aircraft, which Moscow has not confirmed. “We are sorry to have been forced to fire on the air force, but they were throwing bombs and rockets at us,” says Evgueni Prigojine. According to him, the ministry tried to dismantle Wagner by absorbing him, then struck one of his camps, killing thirty.
Finally, the boss of the paramilitary group claimed that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who negotiated the end of the mutiny with the agreement of Vladimir Putin, had proposed solutions to allow Wagner’s survival. “Mr. Lukashenko reached out and offered to find solutions for the continuation of the work of the Wagner group in a legal way,” he says. The Kremlin assures that Yevgueni Prigojine has found refuge in Belarus.
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