After months of feuding between Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and Russia’s Defense Ministry, things came to a head Friday when Prigozhin accused the Russian military of ordering a rocket strike on a camp full of his men and vowed merciless revenge.
publicly called for “patriots” to help him stage a mutiny and stop the “evil” leading the war effort.
That announcement followed a similar one from Russia's federal security agency, the FSB, that said Prigozhin was being probed for attempting to incite an armed rebellion. The country’s security services appear to be bracing for major unrest.
Dmitry Peskov, a spokesperson for the Kremlin, told reporters that President Vladimir Putin was aware of the “unfolding situation” and was taking “all necessary measures.” The mercenary leader escalated his defiance on Friday, asserting that military leaders were “deceiving the public and the president” about why a war with Ukraine was necessary in the first place. He accused military leaders of fear-mongering about a potential Ukrainian invasion that was never coming to justify launching an invasion of their own.
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