Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner Group, a private mercenary force, of mounting a coup, and vowed to take 'decisive actions' to crush the rebellion.
a video from a Wagner-affiliated Telegram channel that claimed to show the wreckage of a missile strike on a Wagner camp and pinned responsibility on the Defence Ministry. On Friday, the Institute for the Study of War , a Washington-based, nonpartisan think tank,
that the video “may have been manufactured for informational purposes.” It has not been independently verified.of ordering the hiding of the bodies of 2,000 Wagner soldiers in a southern Russian morgue. Over the last several months, Prigozhin has escalated his criticisms of the top Russian military brass, accusing them of keeping ammunition and other equipment from his group as well asThat all changed on Friday evening, when Prighozin directly rebuked Putin’s core justifications for the Ukraine invasion.
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