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Prigozhin says Russian Defence Minister attacked Wagner: "There are 25,000 of us, and we are going to sort this out"

Friday, 23 June 2023, 21:56
Prigozhin says Russian Defence Minister attacked Wagner: There are 25,000 of us, and we are going to sort this out

The leader of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has claimed that the regular Russian army launched a missile strike on his mercenaries’ rear camps. Prigozhin added that Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has now fled Rostov like a coward and said "that creature will be stopped". The Russian Ministry of Defence has called this statement a provocation.

Source: Prigozhin’s press service on Telegram; RIA Novosti, a Kremlin-aligned Russian news outlet

Details: Prigozhin said that the attack was carried out by the Russian Armed Forces:"The information from the field suggests that the attack was carried out from the rear, i.e. by forces of the Russian Defence Ministry. These scumbags carried out missile attacks on our rear camps. A large number of our fighters were killed. We will decide how to respond to this atrocity. The next step is up to us."

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According to the Wagnerites’ leader, "those who struck the rear camps of the private military company will be punished".

Quote: "I am asking everyone not to resist. We will consider anyone who tries to resist as a threat and immediately destroy them. Including any checkpoints on our way. I am asking everyone to stay calm, not to succumb to provocations, and to stay in their homes. Preferably, do not go outside along our route. Justice in the army will be restored, and then justice in the whole of Russia...

Shoigu has just fled Rostov like a coward. At 21:00, cowardly as a woman. That creature will be stopped...

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There are 25,000 of us, and we are going to figure out why this lawlessness is happening in this country. 25,000 are anticipated as a tactical reserve, and the strategic reserve is the entire army and the entire country. Anyone who wants to join, do so. We need to put an end to this outrage.

This is not a military coup, this is a march for justice. Our actions don’t interfere with the troops at all."

Details: Prigozhin then claimed that Shoigu had deliberately arrived in Rostov to carry out an operation to wipe out the Wagnerites: "He used artillery and helicopters after dark to take us out."

Meanwhile, the Russian Defence Ministry claims that all the messages and videos being disseminated on social media on behalf of Prigozhin about "the Russian Defence Ministry striking the 'rear camps' of the Wagner Group" are untrue and are an information provocation.

The aggressor country’s Defence Ministry states that the Russian Armed Forces "continue to perform combat missions on the contact line against the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the special military operation [as Russian propaganda calls the war against Ukraine – ed.]".

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