Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed on Saturday to crush a rebellion by Yevgeniy Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenary fighters, who seized key military facilities in southern Russia and then sent a convoy rolling north toward Moscow.
Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed on Saturday to crush a rebellion by Yevgeniy Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenary fighters, who seized key military facilities in southern Russia and then sent a convoy rolling north toward Moscow — an extraordinary threat to the Russian capital that prompted officials to declare emergency counterterrorism measures including travel restrictions and the cancellation of public events.
Even as Putin spoke, a column of Wagner fighters was making a dash up the M4 highway toward Moscow, with fighting reported in Voronezh, a region just north of Rostov on the road to Moscow. Lipetsk’s governor, Igor Artomonov, later conformed the Wagner convoy had crossed into his region, roughly 300 miles from the Kremlin’s walls.Wagner’s lightning advance appeared to stun military officials.
Prigozhin, a Putin protégé who once proved useful to his boss, may be seen as an unwelcome, brutish outsider by Russia’s elite, but he is nonetheless popular in Russian nationalist circles and among rank-and-file soldiers for standing up against what he has denounced as the lies told by Russian generals about military casualties and battlefield losses.
Prigozhin said he had taken control of the main Russian military command base in Rostov and told two Russian military commanders that he would blockade Rostov and send his forces to Moscow unless he could confront his enemies: Shoigu and Gen. Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.
The standoff between Prigozhin and the leadership of Russia’s armed forces has been escalating for months. Prigozhin, a Putin ally since the 1990s, when the two men were based in St. Petersburg, had become increasingly vocal in criticizing the military’s top brass for what he described as botched management of the war in Ukraine.
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