The head of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said on Saturday (24) that he is in control of military installations in Rostov, in southern Russia.
“We are at headquarters at 7:30 am. Military installations in Rostov, including the airfield, are under [nosso] control,” he said. According to Prigozhin, the measures are not hindering operations in Ukraine.
“The planes that leave for combat work usually leave without problems. Medical flights are leaving as usual. All we did was take control so that the attacking aircraft would not hit us, but in the Ukrainian direction,” he continued.
“The main headquarters, the main control point is working normally, there are no problems. No officers have been isolated,” she explained.
The mercenary leader also asked for the presence of the Minister of Defense of Russia, Serguei Choigu, and the commander of the country’s Armed Forces, General Valeri Gerassimov, in the city and stated that he would block everything until that happens.
“We want [Gerasimov] and Shoigu. Until they arrive, we will stay, blockade Rostov and head to Moscow, ”he explained.
Earlier, Prigozhin accused the Russian military leadership of attacking one of his military camps and killing a “large amount” of his mercenary forces. Then he promised to attack official Russian forces as a reprisal.
Prigozhin claimed that the Russian Ministry of Defense misled the Wagner Group and promised to “respond to these atrocities”.
“They sneakily tricked us, trying to deprive us of the opportunity to defend our homes and instead hunt down Wagner. We were ready to reach an agreement with the Ministry of Defense to hand over our weapons and find a solution for us to continue to defend the country. But these scoundrels have not calmed down,” Prigozhin exposed in a voice note posted on Telegram.
He even promises retaliation: “Many tens, tens of thousands of lives of Russian soldiers will be punished,” declared Prigozhin. “I ask that no one put up resistance. Those who show such resistance, we will consider it a threat and destroy them immediately. This includes any roadblocks in our path, any aircraft seen over our heads.”
It was also requested by the mercenary that all people stay at home and “keep calm, so as not to be provoked”.
Then Russia’s top commander in Ukraine, Sergey Surovikin, ordered the mercenaries to stop the rebellion and obey President Vladimir Putin.
*Published by Douglas Porto, with information from Reuters
Source: CNN Brasil
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