Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, seen on a laptop computer display screen, making an announcement in Moscow, on June 24, 2023 as Wagner fighters stage riot.
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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, seen on a laptop computer display screen, making an announcement in Moscow, on June 24, 2023 as Wagner fighters stage riot.
Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP through Getty Pictures
Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned an rebellion by the top of a pro-Kremlin mercenary power towards his Protection Ministry as a “stab within the again” that risked undermining Russia’s warfare effort in Ukraine.
“Those that organized this army rebellion, who raised arms towards their fellow army comrades will reply for it,” stated Putin in an handle to the nation Saturday morning.
The Kremlin chief known as on these taking part within the riot to “make the one proper alternative: cease collaborating on this legal exercise.”
Whereas mentioning no names, Putin’s handle appeared squarely geared toward Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin who was formally charged with “inciting an armed revolt” by Russia’s Federal Safety Providers in a single day Saturday.
The legal cost got here as Prigozhin — in a exceptional sequence of posts to social media — accused the Russian army’s high brass of finishing up deadly assaults on his troopers and vowed to take away the Protection Minister Sergei Shoigu by power.
Prigozhin additionally claims his troopers now management a number of army installations in Rostov-on-Don, a key southern Russian metropolis that serves as a logistical base for the warfare effort in Ukraine.
In response, authorities have launched “anti-terrorism operations” within the capital Moscow and in Rostov-on-Don to revive order.
