Yevgeny Prigozhin has vowed to take ‘revenge’ after accusing Russia’s military of targeting his forces in a rocket attack
The deputy commander of Russia’s Ukraine campaign, general Sergei Surovikin, told Wagner fighters to obey president Vladimir Putin, accept Moscow’s commanders and return to their bases.
He said political deterioration would play into the hands of Russia’s enemies.
“I urge you to stop,” Surovikin said in a video posted on Telegram, his right hand resting on a rifle.
State-run has broken into regular programming for a special news bulletin. In a short message, the country’s best-known news anchor, Yekaterina Andreyeva, called Prigozhin’s claims of a Russian military attack against his Wagner fighters fake and added that a criminal case has been started against the mercenary head.
Andreyeva also repeated FSB’s statement, urging Wagner fighters to detain Prigozhin.
At the end of the news bulletin, the anchor says: “Vladimir Putin has been informed about all events.”
Here is a profile from January of Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former hotdog seller who founded the Wagner group.
Now, Prigozhin’s increasingly brazen criticism has led some to wonder where the ceiling of his ambitions might be.
“People from the FSB are furious about him and see him as a threat to the constitutional order,” said a source in the Russian political elite.
