Two days after an armed mutiny by the Wagner PMC group against Russia’s top military leadership, the mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin speaks for the first time. In a 11-minute audio message, he stated the true intentions for the “march.”
“The aim of the march was to avoid destruction of Wagner and to hold to account the officials who through their unprofessional actions have committed a massive number of errors,” Prigozhin said.
Furthermore, Prigozhin made it clear Russian President Vladimir Putin was not the target when he vowed to stop the Kremlin’s top military leadership. “We didn’t march to overthrow Russia’s leadership,” the Wagner head declared in his latest message on Monday.
He voiced regret that his forces had “to hit Russian aviation.” Prigozhin claimed that the reason his mercenary army turned around was “to avoid spilling blood of Russian soldiers.”
“We were on a march to demonstrate our protest, not to topple the government,” Prigozhin reiterated.
According to Prigozhin, the whole mercenary group was “categorically against the decision to close Wagner on 1 July 2023 and to incorporate it into the defense ministry,” and commanders refused to sign contracts with the Russian army.
Regarding his deal, the mercenary leader stated the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko “extended his hand and offered to find ways for Wagner to continue its work legally,” but did not divulge more information, nor did talk about his current whereabouts.
As part of the agreement to end his march on Moscow, it was reported that Prigozhin would go to Belarus. In addition, the Wagner fighters would head back to their official bases and everyone would avoid treason charges, while the leader accepted his exile for leading the rebellion on Saturday. Although the details are still unclear. –i24 News
“Although the details are still unclear”
EXACTLY!!! Non of this makes any sense!!! If he starting marching towards moscow, why did he so suddenly stop and abort?
How did Putin allow him to so easily takeover the Rostov military base????
The most logical answer is that the CIA paid him (m)(b)illions to stage a coup and overthrow Putin, he went straight to Putin and spilled the beans, he pretended to start his coup with Putin allowing him to temporarily “take over the Rostov base”, he got his down payment from the CIA, split it with Putin and went to Belarus for a well earned vacation
Oh come on. Our beloved government would never do anything unethical.
The details are indeed unclear. The CIA who knew about the coup 2 weeks before it happened according to the NYT, were no doubt behind it. The fact that the uprising lasted only a few hours tells us that Putin was aware of it and stopped it immediately. The question is why Putin dropped all charges on Wagner who was even given a safe haven rather than destroying them.
He killed hundred thousand Ukrainians an now he wants “to avoid spilling Russian blood”.