Our forces have crossed into Russia.. and we will destroy everything that stands in our way
In a dangerous development, the leader of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who announced the uprising against the Russian military leadership, vowed on Saturday to “go to the end” and “destroy everything that stands in his way,” stressing that His troops entered the Russian lands.
“We’ll go to the end.”
“We are continuing and we will go to the end,” Prigozhin said in an audio message on Telegram, after announcing that his forces had “crossed the borders of the Russian state” after they were deployed in Ukraine. And Prigozhin assures that he has 25 thousand fighters.
Meanwhile, the official Russian news agency “Tass” reported at dawn on Saturday that Security measures It was tightened in Moscow.
Security tightened in Moscow
“Security measures have been tightened in Moscow. The most important sites are under strict security measures,” said a security official, as well as “state agencies and transport facilities.”
On Friday, the Russian authorities accused the leader of the Wagner Group of seeking to ignite “Civil warIn the country because of his call to the military to rise up against their leadership, appealing to his fighters to arrest him.
‘Invitation to civil strife’
The Russian Federal Security Service said in a statement that “Prigozhin’s statements and actions are, in fact, a call to start an armed civil conflict on the territory of the Russian Federation and a stab in the back of Russian soldiers fighting pro-fascist Ukrainian forces,” calling on Wagner’s fighters to “take measures to arrest him.”
The developments came after the leader of the “Wagner” group called for an uprising against the army’s leadership, after accusing it of killing a “massive” number of its members in a bombing targeting their rear positions in Ukraine, in an accusation that Moscow denied, confirming the prosecution of Yevgeny Prigozhin on charges of “calling for armed rebellion.”
Putin is aware of the developments
As for the Kremlin, he said, through his spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, that President Vladimir Putin “was informed of all the events related to Prigozhin. The necessary measures are being taken.”
This bomb, detonated by Prigozhin’s commander in the face of the Russian military leadership, brings to the open the deep tensions of the Kremlin forces in Ukraine.
