Photo by HANDOUT/Russian Defence Ministry / AFP via Getty Imagesīefore the uprising, Prigozhin had blasted Shoigu and General Staff chief Gen. This screengrab made from undated video footage released by the Russian Defence Ministry on Jshow Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (centre) gesturing between officers as they look at a map in an undisclosed location. He said the money was intended to pay his soldiers’ families. Petersburg office amid the rebellion found 4 billion rubles ($48 million) in trucks outside the building, according to Russian media reports confirmed by the Wagner boss. It was unclear what resources Prigozhin can draw on, and how much of his substantial wealth he can access. Petersburg, said he filed an official request with Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office and the Federal Security Service, or FSB, asking who would be punished for the rebellion, given that Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed in a Saturday morning address to punish those behind it. Russian media reported that a criminal case against Prigozhin hasn’t been closed, despite earlier Kremlin statements, and some Russian lawmakers called for his head.Īndrei Gurulev, a retired general and current lawmaker who has had rows with the mercenary leader, said Prigozhin and his right-hand man Dmitry Utkin deserve “a bullet in the head.”Īnd Nikita Yurefev, a city council member in St. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.Unclear about their futures, the junior commander, with his troop, is awaiting further orders. They came out to smoke from time to time," he added.Īfter the attempt to topple Russia's defence leadership reached a dead-end, mercenaries were asked to head back to their base in Luhansk, so they did, where they learnt all the developments related to Prigozhin's criminal charge being lodged and dis-lodged sequentially. "So we just agreed that we would leave each other alone. “What's there to make a deal about? This is our city,” the commander said to have responded. Half-an-hour later, when two people came out of the office, the fighters were asked to ‘make a deal’. Following order, they captured the building, searched for possible sign of life. To give an overview of how clueless the operation was, the junior commander said his troop was asked to surround the Federal Security Service's (FSB) office building after they entered southern Russia's important military city of Rostov-on-Don. "We learned what was happening from Telegram, just like you did," he told the English broadcaster. Much like how the Russian troops were ordered to march towards Ukraine as a part of ‘routine exercise’, only to realise later that they are at war with their neighbouring country, the junior Wagner commander, like any other fighters, had no clue about the operation he was a part of. Membes of the Wagner Group military company sit atop of a tank on a street in Rostov-on-Don. He further said the fighters were asked to leave Ukraine, as commanded by boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, unaware of where they are heading. Wagner mercenaries crossed the border and entered Russia without any resistance during the armed mutiny, and if any, they were saluted instead by the traffic police on the way, a junior commander of the mercenary group said, as quoted by BBC.
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