Wagner chief denies group sought to topple Putin, but acknowledged Wagner troops had killed Russian airmen
Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updates
The Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin has reappeared for the first time since abandoning his armed mutiny on Saturday evening, issuing a defiant 11-minute statement in which he defended the Wagner uprising, claiming “society demanded it”.
In the statement, Prigozhin denied his Wagner mercenary group had sought to topple Vladimir Putin and said the uprising had shown there were “serious problems with security on the whole territory of our country”.
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