The Wagner leader spoke for the first time since the end of the rebellion, through an 11-minute long audio message. “The purpose of the march was not to allow the destruction of the Wagner Group”, which was threatened with being absorbed by the army, Yevgeny Prigozhin said. He assured that the objective was “not to overthrow power in the country”. However, Wagner’s dramatic advance towards Moscow revealed “serious security problems” in Russia, he said.
And to clarify: “The civilians came to meet us with Russian flags and Wagner emblems, they were happy when we arrived and passed by them. Wagner could also move: “Mr. Lukashenko reached out and offered to find solutions for the continuation of the work of the Wagner group in a legal way,” he said. He did not reveal where he is, while the Kremlin assured that he would leave for Belarus, without however saying when.
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