State Duma Deputy Konstantin Zatulin, in an interview with socialbites.ca, called for an “immediate stop” to the armed rebellion started by the head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin. Zatulin also described the situation that led to the riot as “neglected” and noted that conclusions should be drawn from it.
“It seems to me that the situation has been neglected. I don’t want to comment further on this, everything about causes is not as important as what’s going on right now. Of course, rebellion is rebellion. I believe that everything should be named after itself – this is an armed rebellion. With all due respect to the merits of PMC Wagner, personally to Prigozhin, whatever the reasons, the reasons, whatever he explains – all this must be stopped and stopped immediately. Of course, conclusions must be drawn about both the rebellion and its causes. And you probably have something to blame yourself for when it comes to the fact that for a very long time the necessary attention has not been given,” he said.
Zatulin added that such uprisings during hostilities are “unacceptable”, and in this case, Prigozhin’s support would “mean the collapse of power in Russia.”
“In any case, such acts, such squatting and everything else in the moment of hostility is unacceptable. This should be stopped as soon as possible, those who agree with this should understand this. I am surprised that Yevgeny Prigozhin does not understand this or does not want to understand it. He must understand that despite all his feelings, his performance cannot be supported. The reverse simply means the collapse of power in Russia and the collapse of the front. And we had such a story in 1917, when some fought while others staged a revolution. This is unacceptable,” he stressed.
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. .
After Prigozhin’s statements, the National Counter-Terrorism Committee announced that a lawsuit was filed for incitement to military rebellion.
Later the Russian Ministry of Defense returned By telling the warriors of the Wagner private military company that they were deceptively involved in Prigozhin’s criminal adventure.