The chief of the Wagner paramilitary group has accused Russian forces of launching missile strikes on his training camps and killing troops, as he raised the prospect of open conflict with Moscow in a pledge to retaliate.
The chief of the Wagner paramilitary group says his fighters have crossed the border into Russia from Ukraine and were prepared to go “all the way” against Moscow’s military, hours after the Kremlin accused him of armed mutiny.
In a sign of how seriously the Kremlin was taking Prigozhin’s threat, security was heightened in government buildings, transport facilities and other key locations in Moscow, and in Rostov-on-Don, which is home to the Russian military headquarters for the southern region and also oversees the fighting in Ukraine.
Asked on Saturday morning whether Russia was heading towards a civil war, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Russia should withdraw from Ukraine immediately. The standoff, many of the details of which remained unclear, looked like the biggest domestic crisis Putin has faced since he sent thousands of troops into Ukraine in February last year.
He claimed Russia had faced no immediate threat from Ukraine when Putin began his full-scale invasion last year and accused the army’s top brass of deceiving the Russian president for their own personal gain.
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