“There are 25 thousand of us and we are going to sort it out”: Prigozhin announced that his military would “punish” the Ministry of Defense and called for people to join him

The head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, announced the start of an armed rebellion against the leadership of the Russian army. This follows from the messages published by his press service. Earlier, he said that the Russian Defense Ministry launched a missile attack on the rear camps of Wagner PMCs, which killed "a huge number of fighters."

“Those who destroyed our guys today, those who destroyed tens, many tens of thousands of lives of Russian soldiers, will be punished. I ask no one to resist. Anyone who tries to put up this resistance, we will consider it a threat, and destroy immediately, including any roadblocks that stand in our way, any aircraft that we see over our heads. I ask everyone to remain calm, not to succumb to provocations, to stay in their homes, it is advisable not to go outside along the route of our journey, ”Prigozhin said.

He promised to "finish what he started" and return to the front. According to him, there will be no changes in the work of the president, government and other state structures. “There are 25 thousand of us and we are going to figure out why chaos is happening in the country. 25 thousand are expected as a tactical reserve, and the strategic reserve is the whole army and the whole country. Anyone who wants to join. We must end this disgrace,” said Prigozhin.

He added that Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu "ran away from Rostov at 21:00". “He ran cowardly, like a woman, in order not to explain why he raised helicopters to destroy our guys, why he launched missile strikes. This creature will be stopped,” said the founder of the PMC. Officially, Shoigu's visit to this city was not reported. Probably, we are talking about Rostov-on-Don. According to the local publication Rostovgazeta, the visit of the Minister of Defense was reported by NewsFrol and the Moscow Laundry telegram channel.

Meanwhile, in the Ministry of Defense, Prigozhin's reports that the ministry allegedly struck at the rear camps of Wagner PMCs were called a provocation. "The armed forces of the Russian Federation continue to carry out combat missions on the line of contact with the armed forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​the special military operation," RIA Novosti quoted the agency as saying.

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