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Daily Mirror
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Rachel Hagan

Prigozhin breaks silence in first message insisting he doesn't want to overthrow Putin

Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has broken his silence claiming his Wagner mutiny was not an attempt to overthrow the government.

In an 11-minute audio message, he defended his short-lived insurrection but said his troops were on a march to demonstrate "our protest, not to topple the government."

He claimed the decision to turn around the march on Moscow was because he and his fighters didn't want to shed Russian blood.

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