2023-06-23 22:00:54
Tensions between Wagner and the Ministry of Defense are at their peak: the leader of the paramilitary group accused this Friday, June 23, the Russian regular army of having carried out strikes on camps of its fighters behind the Ukrainian front , making a “very large number of victims”. If the Ministry of Defense immediately denied the information, the “Putin cook” called for a mutiny against the Russian military high command.
Faced with his seditious statements, the reactions were quick to arrive. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin is being kept informed and “necessary measures” are being taken. Without knowing if there is a link with the previous statement, the Russian security services (FSB) then announced that they had opened an investigation for “call for armed mutiny”.
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“The allegations disseminated in the name of Yevgeny Prigojine have no basis. In connection with these, the FSB has opened an investigation for a call for armed mutiny.said the National Anti-Terrorism Committee of Russia, in a statement quoted by Russian news agencies.
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In his audio message, the boss of the paramilitary group Wagner had defended himself from any coup d’etat. “This is not a military coup, but a march for justice, our actions do not hinder the armed forces”he said.
“Those who have military responsibility for the country must be stopped”
“They carried out strikes, missile strikes, on our rear camps. A very large number of our fighters have been killed”, Evguéni Prigojine said in an audio message broadcast by his press service. In addition to wanting « stopper » the Russian military command, he also promised to ” respond “ to these attacks ordered according to him by the Russian Minister of Defence.
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“The Wagner Group command committee has decided that those with military responsibility for the country must be stopped”he said, calling not to oppose « résistance » to his troops and affirming that Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu would be “stopped”.
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Claiming to have 25,000 men, Wagner’s boss called on the Russians, especially the soldiers, to join them. “We are 25,000 and we are going to determine why chaos reigns in the country (…) Our strategic reserves are the whole army and the whole country”he said, before calling on “all those who want to join us” pour “put an end to the mess”.
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For its part, the Russian military has denied any bombardment of Wagner’s positions, as Yevgeny Prigojine asserted in spectacular accusations that expose the deep tensions within Moscow’s forces in Ukraine.
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“The messages and videos posted on social networks from E. Prigozhin on alleged “strikes by the Russian Ministry of Defense on rear bases of the paramilitary group Wagner” do not correspond to reality and are a provocation”the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
This is not the first time that Wagner’s boss has attacked the Russian army. Last May, Yevgeni Prigojine had already posted three videos in which he violently attacked the Russian Minister of Defense, with whom he has been in conflict for a long time. He even threatened to withdraw his troops from Bakhmout on May 10, for lack of ammunition.
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Prigojine denies the failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive
Earlier in the day, the Wagner boss also claimed that the Russian military is retreating in several areas of southern and eastern Ukraine, contradicting Kremlin claims that the Kiev counteroffensive is a failure.
“The Ukrainian counter-offensive has begun, and the explosion of the Kakhovka dam is a sign of it”
“The (Russian) army withdraws to the areas of Zaporizhia and Kherson (south), the Ukrainian armed forces push”did he declare. “The same is happening in Bakhmout, the enemy will penetrate deeper and deeper into our defense”added the businessman, in reference to an eastern town that the Russians claim to have captured but where the Ukrainians say they have advanced on the flanks in recent weeks.
“There is no control, there are no military successes” of Moscow, he again sniped, saying that the Russian military “wash themselves with their blood”a way of asserting that they are suffering heavy losses.
Unverifiable from an independent source, the words of Wagner’s boss in any case contradict those of President Vladimir Putin and his Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, according to whom the Russian army “repel” all the Ukrainian assaults.
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