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On Saturday, June 24, Yevgeny Prigozhin records a video in which he says he has taken control of the military commands of Rostov-on-Don, Russia's main logistical base for the war in Ukraine. "Bombings of enemy positions and medical ones continue according to plan, now only those against our bases will be stopped." The mercenary leader claims that the military hierarchies of the Russian state are bombing "the heroes who conquered Bakhmut".
Seven in the morning, firm voice, is a shocking alarm bell. Russia finds itself torn apart. Prigozhin is irrepressible, he explains that "they wanted to kill us" and now "we will be the ones who will march towards Moscow to restore justice". It looks like a coup, but it is the beginning of the end for "Putin's chef", who has become a billionaire and war hero through the massacres.
Just five days later, with the march arriving 200 kilometers from Moscow and being abruptly cut short, Prigozhin is already facing Putin, the man to whom he owes everything he owns and yet whom he so flagrantly betrayed.
The rebel comes from Belarus. President-dictator Lukashenko says he persuaded him to stop the uprising "so that it is not crushed like an insect". The other 34 military leaders of the Wagner private militia travel on different routes, but all are met in the Kremlin by Vladimir Putin himself. Little is known about what they said. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov reported three hours of talks.
Wagner's commanders "underlined that they are loyal soldiers of the head of state and supreme commander." Which always means the same person: Putin. Even then, Prigozhin refused to give up or show remorse. He recognizes the authority of the Tsar, but not that of his generals or the Minister of Defense. For months he called them "disabled", "privileged", in front of the whole country. If there was an opportunity to save himself, Prigozhin rejected it that day. Putin was clear after the coup: "It was a betrayal, a stab in the back."
However, since the end of June, the perpetrator of violence has gone underground, disappeared from social networks. It is said that he was in exile in Belarus, but on July 6, President Lukashenko announced that "at the moment he is in Saint Petersburg or Moscow, or somewhere else". The failed putschist seems free to move in the very country he wanted to destabilize. The very "march to Moscow" is called into question. How is it possible that it was a real coup if the culprit is free?
Prigozhin is reported to be in Africa, then back in Russia, certainly not at home when his villa in St. Petersburg is searched in early July. They find fake beards and documents, gold bars, weapons and uniforms with chests full of medals. "It is an attempt by the Russian leaders to discredit the "father" - reacts Wagner -. After all, the bars found are not so much for a rich man like Yevgeny». Do not lower your head, Prigozhin.
At the end of July, the Pentagon suggested that he was using the sozi to confuse those who would like to eavesdrop on him. The Financial Times tracks its two Brazilian planes on Flightradar. According to Bellingcat, he often changes the plane at the last minute so that it is not known which one he is flying. The mercenary leader trusts his people and intelligence. The first actually died for it, the second failed yesterday.
On Monday, Prigozhin reappears in an always paradoxical and provocative video: "We are at work. The temperature is above 50 degrees. That's all we like. The Wagner Group is making Russia even bigger. Justice and happiness for Africans". Last cheer before yesterday evening's flight from Moscow. / bota.al
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