The commander of the Wagner Force mercenary company, Yevgeny Prigozhin, released a lengthy recording on Monday in which he said Al intended to overthrow the Russian government during his forces' insurgency over the weekend.
Prigozhin, whose location is currently unknown, said in the recording: "Our decision to turn around (and retreat) was due to two reasons. The first is that we didn't want to spill Russian blood, and the second is that we went out to demonstrate and protest, not to overthrow the government." This contradicts Prigozhin's statement on his Telegram channel during the uprising that "Russia will soon have a new president."
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"In one day we walked 780 kilometers and reached 200 kilometers from Moscow. Military installations were neutralized. Not a single soldier was killed. Of Wagner's men, no one was killed and only two were wounded. Of the soldiers who supported us and joined us, one soldier was killed and several were wounded," Prigozhin added.
"Everywhere we walked, citizens came out with Russian flags and Wagner symbols, because they, too, wanted to protest against the bureaucracy and ills of the Russian regime. Our March of Justice also exposed Russia's security problems. When our patrol revealed when we arrived near Moscow that if we continued a lot of blood would be spilled, we decided to stop," Prigozhin added.
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