Rogozin condemned Prigozhin for armed rebellion – Kommersant

Dmitry Rogozin, the former head of the Roscosmos state corporation and head of the Tsarskie Wolves military advisory group, said that the actions of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the private military company (PMC) Wagner, are an armed rebellion. Mr. Rogozin believes that “in a war, you need to shove your political ambitions up your ass,” and attempts to weaken the front are “aiding the enemy.”

“I know the situation at the front as well as Prigozhin and I have never concealed my position, but no matter how the armed rebellion is explained, it is still precisely an armed rebellion in the rear of a warring army. In war, you need to shove your political ambitions up your ass and support the front with all your might. Any attempts to weaken him are nothing but complicity with the enemy,” Mr. Rogozin wrote in Telegram.

Yesterday, June 23, Yevgeny Prigozhin accused the Ministry of Defense of strikes on the positions of his company and said that 25,000 people were going to “deal with it.” FSB excited criminal case. In the morning, Mr. Prigogine declaredthat PMC “Wagner” took control of military facilities in Rostov-on-Don.

Ministry of Defense turned to the PMC fighters and stated that they were being tricked into the rebellion. In the near future expected Address by President Vladimir Putin. In Moscow, as well as in the Voronezh and Moscow regions introduced counter-terrorist operation. IN Lipetsk And Voronezh areas, as well as in Rostov-on-Don public events have been cancelled.

Laura Keffer