Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of broadcaster RT, said she had guessed that the owner of the Wagner mercenary group was 'plotting a coup.'
Simonyan said she had the realization after speaking with Prigozhin earlier this year.
"After speaking to him for 40 minutes in the spring...we spoke on the phone and it was all quite obvious," she said.Prighozhin not to commit"treason" prior to the uprising. "I tried to warn him, this is treason against the Motherland. I tried to warn him against thinking in this vein," he said. Solovyov also said the incident had"caused colossal damage to our country's reputation" and"unwittingly revealed an insane amount of information to the enemy.""It's hard for me to imagine that regardless of their reasons, resentments, conflicts and multiple grievances, that people who organized it did not understand that first of all, this is a gift for our common enemies," she said.
"I know Prighozhin, I've known him for many years. It's still hard for me to believe it, you know? I think it's even more difficult for our president."
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