The head of the Wagner mercenary group on Saturday said he had crossed into Russia and seized control of a key military headquarters, vowing to topple Moscow's military leadership and saying he and his 25,000 fighters were 'ready to die'.
“We need to put an end to this mess,” he said, adding, “this is not a military coup, but a march of justice.”
The Russian defence ministry denied Prigozhin’s claims of an attack on his forces, saying the statements “do not correspond to reality”. “I urge you to stop,” Sergei Surovikin, commander of Russia’s aerospace forces, said in a highly unusual video address. Washington-based think tank the Institute for the Study of War said the Wagner chief’s attempt to force a leadership change in the defence ministry “is unlikely to succeed” given that Surovikin had denounced his call for rebellion.
Ukraine was also on high alert after a fresh barrage of Russian missiles Saturday, with casualties and damage reported in Kyiv and the central city of Dnipro. After years of operating in the shadows, Prigozhin eventually admitted to running the elusive mercenary group Wagner and even interfering in US elections.
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