Fighters of the PMC “Wagner”, subordinate to the founder of the group Evgeny Prigozhin, were taken under control of the headquarters of the Southern Military District in Rostov-on-Don.
According to personnel published on social networks, Vagnerians with the use of armored vehicles surrounded the headquarters of the Southern Military District.
Wagner fighters placed heavy weapons, the visibility of the windows and doors of the building. Wagnerians are trying to take control of important objects in the city.
Chapter “Wagner” Evgeny Prigozhin also arrived at the headquarters. “We want to get the head of the General Staff [Valeria Gerasimov] and [the head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey] Shoigu. While they are not there, we are here, block the city of Rostov and go to Moscow,” said Prigozhin.
PROZHOZHIN page in telegrams also published personnel from the deployment around the SEC headquarters. On the frames, Prigozhin said that Wagner also took control of the airport and other military facilities in Rostov.
June 23, the founder of the private military company Wagner, Evgeny Prigozhin, accused the Russian Ministry of Defense of blows on the positions of his company and stated that 25 thousand people were going to “understand”.
On the morning of June 24, he said that the Wagner PMC controls the military facilities of the city.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation called Prigozhin the words “information provocation” and rejected the accusations of strikes on the positions of PMCs.
The FSB of Russia opened a criminal case. The Center for Public Relations (COOs) of the FSB made a statement in which he described the statements of Evgeny Prigozhin as a crime and betrayal and called on the fighters of the Wagner PMC to take measures to detain it.
The department emphasized that Prigozhin’s words “are actually a call for the beginning of the armed civil conflict in the Russian Federation and“ a “blow to the back” of the Russian military. ”
In a number of regions of the Russian Federation, restrictions are introduced-in particular, in the Lipetsk and Voronezh regions, as well as in Rostov-on-Don, mass events were canceled.