After threatening the Russian army, Wagner chief is accused of ‘armed rebellion’

Russian generals late on Friday accused Yevgeny Prigozhin, the outspoken mercenary tycoon, of making an attempt to mount a coup in opposition to President Vladimir Putin, because the Russian authorities opened an investigation into Prigozhin for “organizing an armed rise up.”

The long-running feud between Prigozhin and the Russian navy over the struggle in Ukraine has now escalated into an open confrontation, organising the largest problem to Putin’s authority since he launched his invasion of Ukraine 16 months in the past.

Movies circulating broadly on social media confirmed that navy and nationwide guard armored autos had been deployed in Moscow and the southern metropolis of Rostov-on-Don, close to the entrance line in Ukraine the place Prigozhin’s fighters had been working.