Wagner chief denies his actions amount to a military coup as the Kremlin in turn accuses him of mutiny.
of calling for an armed mutiny on Friday after he alleged, without providing evidence, that the military leadership had killed 2,000 of his fighters and vowed to stop what he called its “evil”.
The standoff, many of the details of which remained unclear, looked like the biggest domestic crisis Putin has faced since he sent thousands of troops into Ukraine in February last year in what he called “a special military operation.” Then, in a series of late evening audio messages on his official Telegram channel, Prigozhin said: “The minister of defence has ordered 2,000 bodies that are being stored to be hidden so as not to show the losses.”
Moscow’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee said that, following Prigozhin’s statements, the Federal Security service had “initiated a criminal case based on calls for an armed rebellion”, the state news agency RIA Novosti reported.Wagner spearheaded Russia’s capture of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut last month, and Prigozhin has used its battlefield success, achieved at enormous human cost, to publicly criticise Moscow with seeming impunity - until now.
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