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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Pjotr Sauer

Russia investigates Wagner chief for ‘armed mutiny’ after call for attack on military

Yevgeny Prigozhin, seen in a video earlier this year,
Yevgeny Prigozhin, seen in a video earlier this year, on Friday released an audio saying: ‘Everyone who will try to resist, we will consider them a danger and destroy them immediately’. Photograph: AP

Russia’s FSB security service has opened a criminal case for armed mutiny against Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin after the mercenary chief accused the Russian military of targeting his forces and vowed to “destroy” his rivals.

In an extraordinary series of audio clips released late on Friday, Prigozhin claimed that a Russian rocket attack had killed scores of his fighters, vowing to take “revenge” and “stop the evil brought by the military leadership of the country”.

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