VKontakte blocked Prigozhin’s statement at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office

One of the statements of the founder of the private military company Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin is blocked on the page of the press service of his company Concorde on VKontakte. The decision of the Prosecutor General’s Office of June 23 is indicated as the reason. Other statements by the entrepreneur, including those with accusations against the Russian Defense Ministry, are still available.

In addition, customers of many operators cannot open the Google News service. So, it is not available to users of Rostelecom and Beeline. According to the Downradar service, users began to massively complain about problems with Google on the night of June 24th. Most complaints come from Moscow. However, Google News continues to work for some operators. For example, the service is available from MTS and Focus Life.

Evgeny Prigozhin late on the evening of June 23 circulated messages accusing the Ministry of Defense of attacking the Wagner PMC camp and that 25,000 people were going to “deal with it”. Ministry of Defense called this is an “information provocation” and rejected accusations of strikes on PMC positions. FSB excited against the founder of PMC “Wagner” a criminal case on incitement to armed rebellion. special service urged fighters of the company to detain Mr. Prigozhin. Prosecutor General’s Office statedthat the entrepreneur faces 12 to 20 years in prison. President Vladimir Putin informed about the situation, his press secretary Dmitry Peskov reported

Leonid Uvarchev