GRU Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseev, addressed the Wagner PMC fighters. video released telegraph channel Alexander Kots, military correspondent of Komsomolskaya Pravda.
In his address, the soldier stated that the organization has carried out joint combat missions from the first day of its existence and continues to interact actively even now. He added that he respects many fighters from this PMC who are serving in the interests of Russia.
“But what is happening right now is an intoxicating fact that I cannot explain in other words. (…) I beg you to stop now, the weapons of the Armed Forces were not and will not be used against your troops. right now we still lack to start a civil war inside the country. Think again,” he said in a video message.
According to Alekseev, Russia is now “in the most difficult situation” while “the whole Western world is armed against it”. He noted that the actions that Wagenr started to carry out “with someone’s provocative idea” would lead to huge losses, especially political ones.
Former General Sergei Surovikin Wrote It appeals to PMC “Wagner” fighters.
On June 23 at the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation declarationOn behalf of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Wagner PMC, he said that the messages and videos about the “attack of the RF Ministry of Defense on PMC Wagner’s rear camps” spread on social networks do not correspond to reality and are an informational provocation. .
Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin knowledgeable About the situation around Prigozhin.
Following Prigozhin’s statements, the National Counter-Terrorism Committee said: filed a lawsuit for incitement to military rebellion.