"We wanted to protest, not overthrow the government." The head of Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, finally breaks the silence with an 11-minute audio message in which he gives his version of what happened in the last days in Russia. "The goal was to avoid the destruction of Wagner, we didn't want to subvert the leadership of the Russian Federation." And the march "showed serious security problems in the country".
La march organized towards Moscow laid down by the Wagner – which revealed the inherent weakness of the Putin regime – was therefore intended to prevent the dissolution of the private military company "from 1 July", as had been imposed by the Ministry of Defence, and to hold to their responsibilities "those individuals who committed a huge number of mistakes in the special military operation " in Ukraine. Prigozhin and the other Wagner officers had decided to lay down their arms in Rostov on June 30, but since they were "bombed", they undertook the so-called "march of justice" towards Moscow, "not to overthrow the legitimate power, but to express his own protest,” Prigozhin explained in the audio message.
Putin's ex-cook would have been sighted in the past few hours a Minsk, news not confirmed either by him or by the Belarusian government. However, the Russian dictator replied dryly to Prigozhin's message: "Either the Wagner militiamen join the Russian army or they go to Belarus"
