“We went to demonstrate our protest and not to overthrow power in the country,” said Wagner Group commander Yevgeny Prigozhin.
“We started our march because of an injustice,” Prigozhin said in the 11-minute audio recording. “We went to demonstrate our protest and not to overthrow power in the country.”
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin described his attempted coup as a protest after the death of 30 of his troops allegedly at the hand of Russian soldiers.“Overnight, we have walked 780 kilometers [about 484 miles], Prigozhin claimed of the group’s march toward the country’s capital. “Two hundred-something kilometers [about 125 miles] were left to Moscow. Not a single soldier on the ground was killed.
The rebellion came as a boiling point in a feud between the Wagner chief and the Kremlin’s top military brass, with Prigozhin calling on Moscow to toss out Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu as part of his negotiations to stop the rebellion.Shoigu making his first public appearancePrigozhin’s fate and the future of Wagner remain unclear. as many doubt that Russian President Vladimir Putin will go through with the sweetheart deal extended to the mutinous troops.
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