In a startling turn of events in Moscow, infighting spilled out in the open among Putin's top lieutenants in a brash move some say threatens to unleash a civil war.
The owner of the Wagner private military contractor made his most direct challenge yet to the Kremlin on Friday, calling for an armed rebellion aimed at ousting Russia’s defense minister. The security services reacted immediately by opening a criminal investigation into Yevgeny Prigozhin and calling for his arrest.
“But we will destroy anyone who stands in our way,” he said. “We are moving forward and will go until the end.” Prigozhin said his troops would punish Shoigu in an armed rebellion and urged the army not to offer resistance.National Amid infighting among Putin's lieutenants, head of mercenary force appears to take a step too far The National Anti-Terrorism Committee, which is part of the Federal Security Services, or FSB, said he would be investigated on charges of calling for an armed rebellion.
Heavy military trucks and armored vehicles were seen in several parts of central Moscow early Saturday, and soldiers toting assault rifles were deployed outside the main building of the Defense Ministry. The area around the presidential administration near Red Square was blocked, snarling traffic. “Today they carried out a rocket strike on our rear camps, and a huge number of our comrades got killed,” he said. The Defense Ministry denied attacking the Wagner camps.
Col. Gen. Sergei Surovikin, the deputy commander of the Russian group of forces fighting in Ukraine, urged the Wagner forces to stop any move against the army, saying it would play into the hands of Russia's enemies, who are"waiting to see the exacerbation of our domestic political situation.”
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