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– Moscow: The head of the Wagner Mercenary Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, announced on Saturday that he was inside the army headquarters in the capital. Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia, and that his fighters took control of the city’s military sites.
Prigozhin said earlier that his forces had crossed into Russia from the Ukrainian front, vowing to overthrow the Russian military leadership, saying that he and thousands of his fighters were “ready to die.”
Russia’s military headquarters in Rostov-on-Don is a key logistical base for its offensive into Ukraine.
“We are inside (the army) headquarters at 7:30 am (0430 GMT),” Prigozhin said in a video posted on Telegram. military sites in Rostovincluding the airport“under control”.
He said the planes involved in the Ukraine attack were “departing as usual” from the airport.
“We put (the airport) under control so that the attacking aviation does not hit us, but the Ukrainians,” said Prigozhin.
He called on the Russians not to believe what they are told on state television.
Addressing the Russians, he said, “When they tell you that PMC Wagner interfered in the business and that is why something collapsed at the front… Things did not collapse at the front for this reason.”
“An enormous amount of territory was lost. Soldiers killed, three times as many, four times as many as in the documents shown to (the) high command.”
Prigozhin claimed that the Russian Chief of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, “ran away from here when he found out we were approaching the building.”
The authorities in Rostov have urged residents to stay at home.
Russia has opened a criminal case against Prigozhin, accusing him of attempting to start an “armed rebellion”.
Prigozhin said earlier that his forces had crossed into Russia from the Ukrainian front, vowing to overthrow the Russian military leadership, saying that he and thousands of his fighters were “ready to die.”
Russia’s military headquarters in Rostov-on-Don is a key logistical base for its offensive into Ukraine.
“We are inside (the army) headquarters at 7:30 am (0430 GMT),” Prigozhin said in a video posted on Telegram. military sites in Rostovincluding the airport“under control”.
He said the planes involved in the Ukraine attack were “departing as usual” from the airport.
“We put (the airport) under control so that the attacking aviation does not hit us, but the Ukrainians,” said Prigozhin.
He called on the Russians not to believe what they are told on state television.
Addressing the Russians, he said, “When they tell you that PMC Wagner interfered in the business and that is why something collapsed at the front… Things did not collapse at the front for this reason.”
“An enormous amount of territory was lost. Soldiers killed, three times as many, four times as many as in the documents shown to (the) high command.”
Prigozhin claimed that the Russian Chief of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, “ran away from here when he found out we were approaching the building.”
The authorities in Rostov have urged residents to stay at home.
Russia has opened a criminal case against Prigozhin, accusing him of attempting to start an “armed rebellion”.
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