Wagner chief breaks silence after armed mutiny, with defiant 11-minute statement defending the uprising
The Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin has reappeared for the first time since abandoning his armed mutiny on Saturday evening, issuing a defiant 11-minute statement in which he defended the Wagner uprising and denied that he had sought to topple Vladimir Putin.
Prigozhin said the rebellion had shown that there were “serious problems with security on the whole territory of our country” and that “society demanded it” because of the failures of Russia’s military leadership in the invasion of Ukraine.
