Ministry of Defense of Russia commented statements of the founder of the private military company Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin, who on the evening of June 23 accused the department of launching missile attacks on the rear camps of the PMCs and threatened to retaliate.
The Ministry of Defense’s Telegram channel claims that the messages and video footage of alleged strikes, broadcast on social networks in the name of Prigozhin, “do not correspond to reality and are an informational 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,” the publication said.
At around 9:00 p.m. on June 23, the Prigozhin Press Service Telegram Channel and other network resources associated with Wagner’s PMC released reports that rocket attacks had been carried out on the rear positions of the Wagnerians.
In particular, the telegram channel “Unloading Wagner” posted a video with the following caption: “A missile attack was carried out on the PMC camps” Wagner “. Many casualties. According to eyewitnesses, the strike was launched from the rear, that is, it was launched by the army of the Russian Ministry of Defense The recording shows a destroyed forest camp, a fire in a trench and the remains of people in camouflage outfit.
Prigozhin Press Service published several audio clips recorded in his voice. One of them says: “We were badly deceived and tried to deprive ourselves of the possibility of defending our homes. <…> Many of our fighters are dead. We will decide how we will react to this.
In another audio recording, Prigogine warns: “Those who destroyed tens of thousands of Russian soldiers’ lives will be punished. <…> I ask you to stay calm, to stay at home, not to go out along the route of our road. After we finish what we started, we will return to the front.”
In another audio clip, the theme of the performance of the PMC fighters continues: “There are 25,000 of us and we are going to understand why the chaos is happening in the country. 25,000 are expected as a tactical reserve. »
Former DPR Defense Minister Igor Strelkov said he could not yet comment on Prigozhin’s statements about the missile strikes or the video attached to them, from which “it is absolutely impossible to understand anything”. “But I declare that the country is on the brink of an attempted military coup. Who initiates it is not yet clear. It is possible that the two warring factions of the “party of power” aspire to it, with the neutrality of the third (FSB and Security Council)”, writing he is in his telegram channel.
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