Russia: Are Wagner's fighters planning to seize power? Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner company of Russian mercenaries and ...

 

Russia: Are Wagner's fighters planning to seize power?

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner company of Russian mercenaries and a rebel against Moscow, claimed that his soldiers had taken over the Rostov security headquarters of the Russian army.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner company, said that his troops had taken the shelkuta without firing a shot and that the local populace had backed them. He claimed that the citizens were giving him this because they wanted to march for freedom. On the other hand, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko to explain the country's current situation. In addition, the Kremlin confirmed that President Putin spoke over the phone with Shavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan and Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan. The Wagner business has been branded a sabotage agent by Russian President Putin. The president threatened to punish those responsible for the crisis that is about to split the nation during a speech to the public, calling their actions treason. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of Wagner, countered that President Putin was mistaken and that the group's members are in fact patriots rather than traitors. Many African nations have seen Wagner's mercenaries at work.