“Is a stab in the back to our country and our people”. This is how he described Vladimir Putin the rebellion of the Wagner mercenary groupin a 12-minute televised speech in which he has accused the paramilitaries of treason, after they have defied the Kremlin and entered Russia.
“Those who organized and prepared the military uprising they betrayed Russia“, has asserted the Russian president, who has promised that”they will answer for it“. A reaction with which he seeks to defend his power, according to Yago RodrÃguez, director of ‘The Political Room’. “He sees his power in danger and that he has to defend himself ‘like a cat belly up'”, says the analyst, who explains that “There are going to be army units that do not support him”, so “he is trying to defend himself with everything he can”.
Putin has also warned that all who join the rebellion will pay heavily. “The actions we will take to protect our homeland from these threats will be harsh.“, he asserted. A “mortal” threat to the country, he says, which comes just as Russia is fighting “its most difficult battle.”
In his speech, Putin addressed Russian citizens but, in particular, mutinous mercenaries, leaving the door open so as not to make “a fatal and tragic mistake.” “He also speaks to those who, with deceit and threats, have been dragged into a criminal adventure and forced to commit a serious crime of armed rebellion,” he said.
Prigozhin responds to Putin
After Putin’s speech, the head of the Wagner Group has responded directly to the Russian president for the first time. “As for ‘betraying the motherland’, the president is sorely wrong. Nobody is going to surrender because we do not want the country to continue to live in corruption, deceit and bureaucracy”, Yevgueni Prigozhin has sentenced.
“The only moment in which we have seen that Prigozhin’s speech was changed has been after Vladimir Putin’s statements in which he accused him of being a traitor,” says Professor Ruth Ferrero, who points out that Prigozhin now says “that Putin is has made a mistake and that this is going to bring down his regime”.
Source: Lasexta
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