Breaking news: Russia’s Federal Security Service late Friday announced a criminal case against Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeniy Prigozhin, accusing him of “incitement to armed rebellion” after he declared an open conflict with Russia’s military leadership.
RIGA, Latvia — Russia’s Federal Security Service late Friday announced a criminal case against Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeniy Prigozhin, accusing him of “incitement to armed rebellion” after he declared an open conflict with Russia’s military leadership and called on Russians to join 25,000 Wagner fighters against Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and other top commanders.
“The armed forces of the Russian Federation continue to carry out combat missions on the line of contact with the armed forces of Ukraine in the area of the special military operation,” the ministry said.Prigozhin posted a video purporting to show the strike on the camp where he said many of his fighters were killed. It depicted rising smoke and signs of destruction but no evidence of the large number of casualties that he claimed.
“I ask everyone to remain calm, not to succumb to provocations, to stay in their homes. It is advisable not to go outside along the route of our journey,” he said, apparently on his way to confront Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and the chief of the Russian general staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, both of whom he had bitterly criticized in a video earlier Friday.
As Russian military forces stalled or lost ground in Ukraine, Wagner succeeded recently in taking control of the city of Bakhmut after a bloody battle that took months and cost thousands of Wagner lives — including those of former convicts who Prigozhin personally recruited from prison to join the fight in exchange for pardons.
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