The head of paramilitary group Wagner has raised the prospect of open conflict with Moscow as his feud with Russian military officials intensifies.
The chief of the Wagner paramilitary group has accused Russian forces of launching missile strikes on his training camps and killing troops, as he raised the prospect of open conflict with Moscow in a pledge to retaliate.
The Russian Ministry of Defence has denied the strike and demanded he halts “illegal actions” while the prosecutor general’s office confirmed Prigozhin had been charged with “organising an armed uprising”, which carries a sentence of 12 to 20 years in prison. It said his “actions will receive appropriate legal assessment”.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, centre, speaks with chief of the general staff General Valery Gerasimov, left, and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.“Those who killed our lads, and tens of thousands of lives of Russian soldiers [in the war in Ukraine] will be punished,” he said. “There was nothing out of the ordinary on February 24,” Prigozhin said, referring to the day Putin ordered the invasion.
The defence ministry said in a statement that “all reports by Prigozhin spread on social media” of Russian strikes on Wagner camps were “not true and are an information provocation”.
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