President Vladimir Putin made an appeal to the Russians.
In his speech, he called the actions of the head of a private military company (PMC) “Wagner” Evgenia Prigozhin as a rebellion and adventure.
Putin called the situation with an armed rebellion “a blow to the back to the country and the people.”
According to the president, those who raised the rebellion, “betrayed Russia.” “Expensive ambitions led to betrayal. Betrayal and treason. As the president of Russia and the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, as a citizen of Russia, I will do everything to stop the rebellion,” Putin said and added that those who participated in the preparation of the rebellion will be inevitable. “
He emphasized that “the armed forces and state bodies received the necessary orders.” “The actions that split our unity are essentially apostasy from their people, from the combat comrades who are now fighting at the front, this is a blow to the back of our country and our people,” Putin said.
The politician recalled the events of the Civil War, noting that the entire military, economic, information machine of the West was directed against Russia.
He once again stated that the whole military, economic, information machine of the West was also directed against Russia. ” “We are fighting for the life and safety of our people, for our sovereignty and independence, for the right to be and remain Russia,” the president said.
June 23, the founder of the private military company Wagner, Evgeny Prigozhin, accused the Russian Ministry of Defense of shots 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.