2023-06-24 11:00:52
Live coverage… Putin in the face of Wagner’s “rebellion”.
24.06.2023
After the Russian president described the movement of the Wagner mercenary group as “rebellion” and treachery, developments follow between the group’s leader’s response to Putin and the move towards Moscow. What is going on in Russia and the external and internal reactions in live coverage.
Shooting
Archyde.com witness: Russian army helicopters fire on a Wagner military convoy on the M4 highway outside Voronezh.
Zelensky comments on the events
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky considered on Saturday that the armed rebellion launched by the Wagner Group is evidence of Russia’s weakness and political instability. In his first comment on the current events in Russia, Zelensky wrote on social media, “Russia’s weakness is clear. Weakness is widespread. The more Russia keeps its forces and mercenaries on our land, the more chaos, pain and problems it faces later.” “It is clear that Ukraine is able to protect Europe from the spread of Russian evil and chaos,” he stressed.
“Russia chose propaganda to hide its weakness and the foolishness of its government, and now the chaos has reached such a level that no one can lie regarding it anymore,” he said. He added that Russian President Vladimir Putin “sends hundreds of thousands of people to war, to finally fortify himself in the Moscow region to take refuge from those he has armed himself.”
Kadyrov supports Putin
In the Russian Republic of Chechnya, its president close to Putin, Ramzan Kadyrov, stressed today, Saturday, the need to suppress the armed rebellion, and declared his readiness to do everything possible to protect Russia and its sovereignty. Ramzan Kadyrov, President of the Chechen Republic, said his forces were ready to provide assistance in thwarting Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rebellion and to use harsh methods if necessary. In a statement posted on Telegram, Kadyrov described Prigozhin’s move as a “stab in the back” and appealed to Russian soldiers not to give in to any “provocations”.
Prigozhin refuses to give up
Wagner President Yevgeny Prigozhin responded, in an audio message via his channel on the Telegram application, to Russian President Putin by saying that his fighters would not surrender as requested by Russian President Vladimir Putin and the security services, and said that Wagner’s fighters were “patriotic,” and that Russian President Vladimir Putin was “very wrong.” When he called them “traitors”.
Chief Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin
Putin describes the move as treason
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an exceptional televised speech today, Saturday (June 24, 2023), that“Armed Rebellion” by the Wagner Group Private military operations are treason, and anyone who takes up arms once morest the Russian army will be punished. He added that he would do everything to protect Russia, and that “decisive action” would be taken to stabilize Rostov-on-Don, a city in the south. its military installations.
Putin appeared angry during his extraordinary speech
Control of Russian military headquarters
confirmed Wagner Commander Yevgeny Prigozhin On Saturday morning (June 24, 2023), it entered the general headquarters of the Army Command in the Russian city of Rostov, which is a main center for the Russian attack on Ukraine, and took control of military sites, including an airport. “We are in the general headquarters, it is 7:30 in the morning,” Prigozhin said in a video clip posted on Telegram, adding that “military sites in Rostov are under control, including the airport,” as men in military uniforms walked behind him.
He pointed out that the military aircraft participating in the Russian attack on Ukraine “take off naturally” from the airport to carry out their “combat missions,” stressing that “there is no problem.” Prigozhin added that “the main command point is operating normally,” stressing that “large areas of occupied territory in Ukraine” have been lost and “many soldiers have been killed,” accusing the Russian army Again by not telling the truth regarding the situation on the front. He said the army was losing “up to a thousand men a day” among dead, wounded and missing, in addition to those who refused to fight.
Chief Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin
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