What’s going on in Russia? Prigozhin versus Shoigu?
According to some rumors, the head of the Wagners, Yevgeny Prigozhin, would have finally completely severed relations with the Russian army and essentially "declared war" on the Russian Defense Ministry.
According to a top translator who reviewed the newly released audio of Prigozhin's fiery Telegram message, the Wagner leader begins with: “The Council of Commanders of the PMC Wagner has made a decision: the evil brought by the country's military leadership must be stopped. They neglect the life of the soldiers. They forgot the word “justice”, and we will bring it back”.
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— Dmitri (@wartranslated) June 23, 2023
The news comes amid unverified reports that the regular army has launched an attack on a Wagner encampment after months of escalating tensions, which the Russian Defense Ministry has just denied. During the day, the following video had circulated of a Wagner company camp attacked by the men of the Russian defense minister.
All of this quickly gave way to reports from the region that Prigozhin was ready to lead a full-blown "coup" against the top brass, especially the top military.
The translation of Wagner's founder's words continues as follows:
Those who destroyed our guys today, who destroyed tens, tens of thousands of lives of Russian soldiers will be punished. I ask: no one resists. All those who will try to resist, we will consider them a danger and we will immediately destroy them, including the checkpoints in our path. And any aviation we will see above our heads.
I ask everyone to remain calm, not to give in to provocations and to stay in their homes. Ideally, those who are in our path do not go out. After we finish what we started, we will go back to the front lines to protect our motherland.
Of course, Shoigu and the Ministry of Defense flatly denied the allegations. We don't know clearly what's going on and how reliable the information is. Some telegram channels also speak of military support for Prigozhin, but nothing is understood and great uncertainty reigns.
TASS speaks of accusations against Prigozhin for inciting armed rebellion: the accusations spread on behalf of Yevgeny Prigozhin have no basis. In connection with these statements, the FSB of Russia initiated a criminal case on the fact that he called for an armed rebellion. We demand the immediate cessation of the illegal actions. Putin allegedly took the necessary measures, it is not clear which ones.
We'll see tomorrow if anything changes
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