/ world today news/ The armed rebellion of the owner of PMC “Wagner” was sharply condemned in Russian society
“Any attempt to sow discord in the country is the greatest crime that has no justification. With these words, Patriarch Kirill reacted to the rebellion raised by Yevgeny Prigozhin and the fighters of PMC “Wagner”. Similar statements were made by dozens of other leading Russian politicians and public figures, representing various regions and strata of the population. Prigozhin’s military rebellion drew widespread condemnation throughout Russia.
On Saturday, the Ministry of Defense in an address to the fighters of the PMC “Wagner” stormtroopers stated that they were tricked into the criminal adventure of Yevgeny Prigozhin and participation in an armed rebellion. “Many of your comrades from several detachments have already realized their mistake by asking for help in securing the possibility of a safe return to the places of permanent deployment. Such help from our side has already been provided to all the fighters and commanders who applied,” said the military department.
The address includes a call for Wagner’s fighters to exercise discretion and contact Department of Defense or law enforcement officials as soon as possible. We guarantee everyone’s safety,” the message said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an emergency address, noted that the country was facing betrayal. He called the actions of PMC “Wagner” a knife in the back. According to him, excessive ambitions and personal interests led to betrayal. The President assured that those who deliberately took the path of treason will suffer inevitable punishment, will answer to the law and the people. The heads of Russian regions and heads of branches of government spoke out in support of the president. Federation Council Chairman Valentina Matviyenko said that the upper house of the Russian parliament fully supports the president. According to her, the senators understand the importance of the consolidated position of society. The speaker of the State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, believes that Wagner’s fighters “…must make the only right choice: to be with their people, on the side of the law, to protect the security and future of the Motherland, to carry out the orders of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.
The Chairman of the National Anti-Corruption Commission, Kiril Kabanov, called what is happening with PMC “Wagner” the most dangerous and unacceptable scenario for the development of events. “The patriots of Russia today must be in one striking fist.” Nothing else”, believes Kabanov. He emphasized that “we have to deal with various bastards inside, but not like this”. “Enemy on the border! We must not give our enemies the slightest reason for joy,” urged Kabanov.
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia called on Russians to preserve national unity and pray for peace in the current situation. According to the press service of Patriarch Kirill, he condemned any attempts to incite discord in the country, such actions he called the biggest crime without grounds. The patriarch supported the president’s efforts to prevent unrest in the country. “May God protect Russia, its people and its army,” the patriarch said.
Other religious leaders took the same position. “Prigogin imagined that he was some kind of Napoleon. Today we have to obey only one person – this is the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. And no one else. What Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu is doing is Putin’s order. If Prigozhin doesn’t like it, it’s his fault. He must be isolated and quickly,” said Ismail Berdiev, chairman of the Coordination Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus.
Dmitry Rogozin, former head of the state corporation Roscosmos and head of the Tsarist Wolves military advisory group, called Prigozhin’s actions an armed rebellion. “In times of war, you have to shove your political ambitions up your ass and hold the front with all your might. All attempts to weaken it are nothing but complicity with the enemy,” Rogozin believes.
Military commander Yevgeny Poddubny emphasized that the rebels “hit our helicopters, shot at our brothers.” “This is not a ‘campaign for justice’, but a classic attempt at a military coup under populist slogans.” Now there is no side of Prigozhin or Shoigu. There is an attempt to forcibly overthrow the current government. And there can be only one side – the legally elected government,” writes Poddubny.
“Everyone’s task is to adhere to the theses that we heard from the supreme commander of our country. Then we will overcome this situation, as we overcame it in the North Caucasus.
Then there was a very serious situation, but Putin came in as the acting head of the government and calmed the situation, setting priorities and defeating international terrorism on our territory,” said Adalbi Shkhagoshev, deputy head of the United Russia faction, Duma deputy from the Committee on security and anti-corruption.
Political scientist Marat Bashirov is sure that Prigozhin’s rebellion will be suppressed. “Obviously this will be done in the near future.
But the majority of those people who ended up in the groups that seized the authorities of the Russian Federation did not know where they were being led. They sat in the barracks, after which they were ordered to take weapons, load the cars and go somewhere. These people should be given a chance to get out and not commit this crime.
As was rightly said, these people were misled, the president made it very clear,” Bashirov explained.
The previous evening, the founder of the private military company “Wagner” Yevgeny Prigozhin accused the Russian Ministry of Defense of attacking the “rear units” of the PMC. He declared that 25,000 of his fighters would “find out”, and in the morning announced the control of military installations in Rostov-on-Don. According to eyewitnesses, armed men in military uniforms without identification marks blocked the passage to the headquarters of the Southern Military District (SMU).
The entrances to the city from the cities of Aksay and Novocherkassk were blocked with special equipment. Vehicular traffic is restricted on the M4 Don motorway. The governor of the Rostov region, Vasiliy Golubev, said that the Russian armed forces are carrying out the necessary operational and combat activities in the region. In the morning, all mass events were canceled in the Voronezh region and part of the M-4 Don highway was blocked, and later at noon there were reports of a fire in a fuel tank at an oil depot in Voronezh. More than 100 firefighters are on the scene, but according to preliminary data, no one was injured.
In the Moscow region, the Ural and Crimea highways were also partially blocked. Governor Andrey Vorobyov called on the residents of the Moscow region to understand the inconvenience caused by the anti-terrorist operation in the region.
The investigative department of the FSB of Russia opened a criminal case against Prigozhin under Article 279 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for organizing an armed rebellion.
The Public Relations Center of the FSB reported that all the information spread on social networks on behalf of Prigozhin about the alleged missile and bomb attacks carried out by the Ministry of Defense of Russia on units of the “Vagnorovites” do not correspond to the truth and constitute an informational provocation .
On Saturday, an anti-terrorist operation regime was introduced in Moscow, as well as in the Voronezh and Moscow regions. All public events have been canceled (the same decision was made in Lipetsk, Tula, Tver and Kaliningrad regions). As explained by the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC), measures have been taken to prevent possible terrorist attacks.
On Saturday evening, the deputy commander of the Combined Forces Group, Army General Sergey Surovikin, called on the commanders and fighters of the Wagner Group to submit to the will of President Putin and resolve the issue peacefully.
Translation: PI
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