Russia’s Last Uprising: Putin Accuses Prigozhin of Treason

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Vladimir Putin admitted that the situation in Rostov-on-Don is “complicated” after Yevgeny Prigozhin’s forces captured command posts in the southern city and called on the leaders of the mercenary Wagner Group to lay down their arms.

Those who organized and prepared the military uprising, who took up arms against their comrades, have betrayed Russia. And he will pay for it. I urge those who are trying to drag them into this crime, the Russian president said, not to make a fatal, tragic and irrevocable mistake, and to make the only right choice – to stop participating in this crime.

Putin likened the warlord uprising to the collapse of the Russian state in 1917.

In his address to the nation about Wagner’s paramilitary chief’s “march of justice” against the Russian military, the Russian president said Russia would take “decisive measures to stabilize the situation” in Rostov-on-Don, a southern city home to the great Russian. A command post where Prigozhin claimed to have captured all the military installations.

“The work of the civilian and military leadership is basically cornered,” Putin said.

Putin said that Russia’s armed forces had “received basic orders” for “additional measures of an anti-terrorist nature” in Moscow and “several other regions”.

The move essentially puts the FSB, Russia’s main security service, in charge of regions and gives it the right to arrest anyone, seize anything, or raid any place it sees fit.

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