Stop rebelling before it’s too late
After the Russian prosecutors requested the arrest of Wagner Commander on the grounds of his accusation armed rebellionInfluential Russian General Sergey Surovkin called at dawn on Saturday for Wagner’s fighters to “stop” and return to their barracks “before it’s too late,” shortly after the group’s commander, Yevgeny Prigozhin, called on the army to rise up against the military leadership.
We are of the same blood.
“I am addressing the fighters of the Wagner Group and its leaders. We are of the same blood. We are warriors. I ask (you) to stop before it is too late. The will and orders of the Russian president,” elected by the people, must be obeyed, Surovkin said in a video recording broadcast on the press Telegram application on Russian state television.
And under Accelerated developments Between the Russian army and Wagner’s forces, Moscow announced on Saturday that Kiev forces are preparing to launch an attack near the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, “exploiting” the chaos resulting from Wagner’s commander Yevgeny Prigozhin’s call for an uprising against the Russian military leadership.
Kyiv exploits differences
The Russian Ministry of Defense said in a statement that “Kiev forces are taking advantage of Prigozhin’s provocations aimed at destabilizing the situation in order to regroup units from the 35th and 36th Marine Brigade to launch offensive actions” in the Bakhmut region, noting that its forces targeted Ukrainian forces with air and artillery bombardment.
“armed rebellion”
The leader of the “Wagner” group had called for an uprising against the army leadership after accusing it of killing a “massive” number of its members in a bombardment targeting their rear positions in Ukraine, an accusation Moscow denied, confirming the prosecution of Yevgeny Prigozhin on charges of “calling for an 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, which was detonated by Prigozhin’s commander in the face of the Russian military leadership, brings to the open the deep tensions that the Kremlin forces in Ukraine suffer from.
