BACKGROUNDYevgeny Prigozhin has been feuding with the Russian military since at least March of this year. Then, he captured Russian Lt Col Roman Venevitin because Venevitin ordered his troops to shoot at Prigozhin’s soldiers. He never directly attacked Putin by name — Prigozhin only said that Putin was badly mistaken about him. If Prigozhin wasn’t going to unseat Putin, then the only other goal he could have was to remove his enemy — Sergei Shoigu the sitting MOD. Prigozhin says Putin is “deeply mistaken” Video posted by The Telegraph Newspaper (UK) below.

Source: The Guardian June 28, 2023 09:13 UTC