The chief of the rise up pressure threatens to attain Moscow; Putin: “The traitors – might be punished”

The head of the Wagner Forces, Yevgeny Prigozhin, declared an armed uprising inside the beyond day, and introduced that he intends to take over the centers of the Russian military and the Ministry of Defense for you to arrest Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of Staff of the Russian Army Valery Gerasimov. Prigozhin, who's considered near Putin more From the 1990s in St. Petersburg, he is the one who led the combination of the paramilitary institution inside the struggle in Ukraine, while recruiting prisoners with the promise of amnesty if they continue to exist the rounds of fight. He accuses the two Russian officials of having ordered the bombing of a camp of the Wagner pressure in recent days as a part of a warfare Internally, in addition to with the aid of mendacity to the general public and Putin about the variety of Russian victims and the possibilities of success within the battle.

The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, strongly condemned Prigozhin’s circulate, defining it as “treason, and said that those worried could be punished. In a recording published at 10:00 a.M. (Israel time) on Russian television, Putin said that “this is an try to divide us from within ” and defined the contemporary pass as an “armed rebellion”. He addressed Wagner’s fighters, and the military forces who may additionally have joined them inside the interim and stated “folks who intentionally comply with the direction of treason, and prepare an armed rise up even as we are preparing for terrorist attacks – could be punished”.

The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, in his speech this morning to Russian TV / Photo: Reuters

Prigozhin: Wagner pressure “saves Russia”

Prigozhin commenced the flow, which some recollect to be the primary coup strive in Russia in 30 years, yesterday morning with harsh words he posted towards the Russian Ministry of Defense. He said that the ministry and the Russian army “misled” the united states’s president, Vladimir Putin, as a way to get wealthy, and planned to “percentage the spoils” after a brief profession of Ukraine. He stated that there has been no navy need to attack, and that the Russian army had misrepresented to Putin about Ukraine’s plans. He additionally accused the Russian facet, to which he belongs, of financial looting of jap Ukraine occupied via Russian forces in 2014.

Prigozhin then published a video wherein he claims that Russian forces bombarded a camp of the Wagner pressure with artillery and from the air, as a part of the war among the parties that has flared up in recent months. He stated that that is a cause for a campaign in opposition to Moscow, to depose the top of the Russian security machine. The Ministry of Defense issued a denial that it attacked a camp of Wagner’s pressure.

 

Just wow. A video has surfaced showing Prigozhin at the Southern Military District HQ in Rostov-on-Don speakme to (and HUMILIATING) Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-bek Yevkurov. He threatens to blockade Rostov and head for Moscow!

I even have extreme hassle expertise Yevkurov and… p.C.Twitter.Com/jGr9gaLB1i

– Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) June 24, 2023

This morning (Saturday) Prigozhin become recorded on the headquarters of the Russian military in Rostov, explaining to the deputy chief of team of workers and a senior Russian popular that if the 2 army chiefs do no longer arrive there, his forces will arrive in Moscow to get them. According to estimates, Wagner’s force numbers approximately 25 thousand men Adam as of now. Estimates are that the pressure has efficaciously taken over Rostov, from wherein the offensive and protection in opposition to Ukraine has been conducted for the beyond few months. Footage from the town showed tanks inside the streets.

Yevgeny Prigozhin at the southern military headquarters in Rostov / Photo: Reuters

Yevgeny Prigozhin at the southern army headquarters in Rostov / Photo: Reuters

Also, within the morning today, the Wagner pressure announced that it had succeeded in taking control of navy facilities in Voronezh, a strategic metropolis about 500 kilometers north of Rostov.

British Ministry of Defense: Prigozhin defined the operation as a “march to freedom”

Prigozhin stated that his forces “manipulate” the metropolis of Rostov, which include the airport and army facilities. According to him, they shot down 3 Russian helicopters that tried to help stop the takeover of it. “We want Gerasimov and Shoygo. Until they're right here, we can live, blockade Rostov, and aim for Moscow,” he stated.

According to him, the Wagner pressure “saves Russia” by means of doing so. “Large parts (of japanese Ukraine, AA) have been lost to the enemy, the range of useless squaddies is 3 or four instances better than what's said inside the files that pass above, and literally ten times greater than what they say on television,” Prigozhin stated within the series of video clips he's importing.

The Russian president has “allowed” rival factions, inclusive of the navy, Wagner’s pressure and the Chechen combatants to “fight every other” in recent months, however a few weeks in the past he introduced his unequivocal aid for the military. Last night Russia’s Internal Security Service (FSB) introduced that Prigozhin became seeking to organize an “armed coup” in opposition to the Russian government. Generals within the Russian navy referred to as on Wagner’s fighters to desert the strive and chorus from action towards the country.

In a assertion posted by way of the British Ministry of Defense regarding the events in Russia, it become stated that “in an operation defined by means of Prigozhin as a ‘march for freedom,’ forces of the Wagner organization crossed from occupied Ukraine into Russia in as a minimum two regions. In Rostov, Wagner almost clearly occupied key protection websites, consisting of the headquarters that manages the Russian navy operations inner Ukraine”.

 

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the state of affairs in Ukraine – 24 June 2023

– Ministry of Defense Just (@DefenceHQ) June 24, 2023

The assertion also said that “extra gadgets of the Wagner force are transferring north via Voronezh, nearly surely with the purpose of reaching Moscow. In the coming hours, the loyalty of Russia’s protection forces, and of the Russian National Guard particularly, will determine how the crisis will broaden further. This is the maximum huge mission of Russia in those instances”.